State v. Berry

PONDER, Justice.

The defendant, A. E. Gowan, was jointly indicted with Robert L. Berry in an indictment charging them with setting fire to a shop or store building, the property of A. E. Gowan. Robert L. Berry entered a plea of guilty. The defendant, A. E, Gowan, having pleaded not guilty, was duly tried, convicted, and sentenced to the penitentiary for not less than three and not more than nine years, from which conviction and sentence the defendant, A. E. Gowan, prosecutes this appeal.

The defendant’s counsel, during the trial of the case, reserved five bills of exceptions to the rulings of…