Dixon v. State

1. Wliere, in tlie trial of one charged with arson, it appears that the barn described in the indictment was destroyed by fire about three o’clock in the morning, that no fire had been left in or near the building on the night before it was burned, that while the fire was in progress an odor of kerosene oil emanated from the building, and an empty can which had contained such oil was found near by, and that tracks of a human being, leading to and from the barn, were found, and the circumstances were such as to indicate that they were made after the barn was closed on the night before the…