Burke v. State

J. Fred Jokes, Justice.

Paul “Sonny” Burke, Jr. was convicted of arson in the Circuit Court of Polk County, and was sentenced to five years in the state penitentiary with three years suspended. He assigned thirty-seven errors in his motion for a new trial which was overruled by the trial court. He has appealed to this court and relies on seven points for reversal.

The facts stated briefly are as follows:

About seven thirty or eight o’clock on December 19, 1963, Buck Cureton’s barn and rent house, near Vander-voort in Polk County, were destroyed by fire. The barn was about two hundred yards and…