Dawson v. State

HENDERSON, Judge.

Appellant was convicted of conspiracy to commit arson, and his punishment assessed at confinement in the penitentiary for a term of two years; hence this appeal.

The principal witness in the case against appellant was L. F. Saucer, a confessed accomplice. He testified to a positive agreement between defendant (C. A. Dawson), himself, W. R. Clark, and John Thomas, made and entered into at Lancaster, in Dallas County, 'about the 17th day of October, 1895, to burn a house situated in Cameron, Milam County. Appellant had stored in said house a lot of household goods, including a…