State v. Hess

KRUCKER, Judge.. Defendant was convicted of arson, five counts, in the Superior Court of Pima County, and from her conviction she brings this appeal.

Between May 31 and June 2, 1967, six fires occurred at a store in Tucson, and at this time defendant Hess was an employee of the store. On Friday, June 2, an investigation was commenced by the 'store to determine the cause of the fires, and several of the employees, including the defendant, were questioned and given “lie detector” tests by investigators hired by the store.

The investigators were trained in the administration of polygraph tests,…