Pretre v. State

MARTIN, Judge.

— Offense, arson; penalty, two years in the penitentiary.

About the 13th day of October, 1927, a building occupied by A. H. Brown, a public weigher, was burned. It was shown that bales of cotton occupied a platform adjoining this building. It was the theory of the State that appellant had stolen one of these bales and thereafter fired the cotton on the platform to hide the commission of his offense, and that the fire thus set was communicated to the building in question, burning it down.

Omitting non-essential parts, the indictment charges that appellant “did then and there…