Mister v. State

190 So.2d 869 (1966)

Charlie MISTER

v.

STATE of Mississippi.

No. 44088.

Supreme Court of Mississippi.

October 10, 1966.

William Alexander Lomax, Grenada, for appellant.

Joe T. Patterson, Atty. Gen., by G. Garland Lyell, Jr., Asst. Atty. Gen., Jackson, for appellee.

ETHRIDGE, Chief Justice:

Charlie Mister, appellant, was convicted in the Circuit Court of Grenada County of arson. The question is whether the evidence was sufficient to support the conviction.

Mister, a Negro, had lived on the farm of Berlon Worsham in the house which burned. In December 1965 Worsham refused to lend defendant some money.…