State v. Mills

GUNN, Judge.

Defendant appeals from his conviction for arson and raises two points of alleged trial error which he contends warrant a new trial: 1) that inadmissible hearsay testimony was permitted; 2) that the State’s verdict directing arson instruction was an improper deviation from MAI-CR 7.02. We affirm the judgment.

On November 16, 1973, St. Louis police officers Daniel Cregan and John Clobes responded to a call and found the rear porch of the residence of defendant’s mother in flames. Firemen were quickly able to extinguish the flames. After talking with defendant’s mother, Mrs.…