Robinson v. State

DAVIDSON, Judge.

Appellant was convicted, under Article 1322, P. C., of the willful burning of his insured automobile. His punishment was assessed at two years in the penitentiary.

The sufficiency of the evidence to support the conviction is challenged.

According to appellant’s extrajudicial confession, he fell asleep while driving his automobile along a public highway about five o’clock in the morning, as a result of which he ran the car off a culvert and into a ditch, turning the car over. When he saw the gasoline running out of the gas tank, he decided to and did set fire to and burn the…