Payton v. State

Henry Damon Payton appeals his conviction and his judgment and sentence, raising three issues: whether the trial court erred in denying Payton's motion for judgment of acquittal, whether the trial court erred in excluding a third-party confession, and whether a scrivener's error occurred in the judgment and sentence. We affirm on the first two issues, but write to address Payton's claim that the trial court abused its discretion in excluding the third-party confession.* On the last issue, we remand to the trial court with instructions to correct the scrivener's error on Payton's judgment and…