Adamson v. State

ON MOTION FOR REHEARING.

HAWKINS, Judge.

Appellant contends that this case should be reversed on the claim that there is no evidence to support a finding that the fire was of incendiary origin save that of Rogers. As supporting such proposition we are cited to Duncan v. State, 7 S. W. (2d) 79. In that case an extra judicial confession of the accused was used; no other evidence indicating that the house was set on fire was found in the record; the holding necessarily followed that the corpus delicti could not be established by the extra judicial confession alone. If Duncan had appeared in the…