Taylor v. State

HAWKINS, JUDGE. —

Conviction is for murder, punishment assessed being twenty years in the penitentiary. The charging part of the second count of the indictment, and the only count submitted to the jury, is as follows:

“* * * That on the aforesaid date in the aforesaid state and county B. B. Taylor did then and there unlawfully set fire to a house then and there situate, occupied by and controlled by J. M. Craker, and while in the perpetration of arson did then and there set fire to said house and did then and there and thereby cause J. M. Craker, who was then and there in said house, to be…