Giles v. State

We see no necessity for setting out the evidence in detail. The defendant was indicted for the offense of arson—illegally burning the dwelling house of his wife. The house was located in Wilkinson County, Georgia. The evidence reveals that the defendant had threatened, on many occasions, to burn the house; that his wife and her mother had ceased to reside in the house on account of threats made against them by the defendant; that the defendant’s wife, when she temporarily ceased to live in the house because of such threats, had left a deep freezer in the house, with frozen chickens in the…