Carpenter v. State

A jury convicted appellant, Arthur Carpenter, of the crime of arson and fixed his punishment at one year in the state penitentiary. The indictment charged that appellant on January 1, 1942, set fire to and burned a building belonging to the Washington county, Mississippi, Y. M. C. A. On this appeal appellant contends that the evidence was not sufficient to support the verdict and the judgment against him, and that the trial court erred in giving appellee’s instruction No. 4.

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In cases of this nature this court has many times announced the rule that the duty devolves upon the state to prove the…