Court Opinion

ID: 9789372
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-31 01:35:36.320886+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T15:44:58.797789
License: Public Domain

HAYS, Justice,
specially concurring:
I concur in the result reached by the majority. I cannot however agree with the majority’s holding that on retrial the trial court should give a reckless-burning instruction. If the defendant on retrial presents the same evidence, the trial court need not so instruct. To hold otherwise is to say that a “cock-and-bull” story by a defendant, testing all credulity, mandates the dignity of an instruction. My view of the validity of this evidence differs from that of the majority. On this issue I do not concur.
CAMERON, J., joins in the special concurrence of HAYS, J.