Bray v. State

George K. Cracraft, Judge.

Pinta Lou Bray was charged with the crime of arson after she voluntarily confessed to having set fire to a couch and a mattress in a halfway house. In her confession she stated that she had set the fire to get even with one of the supervisors of the halfway house. A jury found her guilty of the lesser included offense of criminal mischief in the first degree and she was sentenced to a term of four years in the Department of Correction. On appeal she contends that the trial court erred in not directing a verdict at the close of the State’s case because the evidence…