State v. Vickers

Defendant, Robert Wayne Vickers, was convicted and adjudged guilty of one count of first-degree murder, A.R.S. § 13-1105(A), and one count of arson of an occupied structure, A.R.S. § 13-1704. He was sentenced to death, A.R.S. § 13-703, for the murder conviction and to twenty-one years for the arson conviction, to run consecutively with any other sentences he was presently serving. He appeals. We have jurisdiction pursuant to A.R.S. § 13-4031.

Although the defendant raises some ten issues on appeal, we need consider only one and that is whether an incorrect arson instruction, upon which a…