Mize v. State

McMurray, Presiding Judge.

Defendant appeals his conviction of two counts of the offense of arson in the first degree and one count of influencing a witness. Held:

1. The arson charges arose from the destruction by fire of defendant’s residence. At trial one of the State’s witnesses was an eight-year-old child who testified that she had seen defendant at his residence on the day of the fire. Defendant’s first three enumerations of error involve defendant’s attempts to present evidence of prior contradictory statements of the young witness.

The evidence which defendant sought to present was…