Armstrong v. State

I dissent because I believe that the evidence is insufficient to sustain the appellant’s convictions of burglary and arson. I submit that there is sufficient evidence from the record for the jury to find that the Hall residence partially burned on December 17, 1991; that the fire started as a result of arson, with ethyl-alcohol used as the accel-erant; that the appellant had been heard to threaten to burn the Hall house; that the appellant had offered to burn his landlord’s trailer a year or two earlier, said that he could do it without a trace using alcohol, and told the landlord that he…