Rogers v. State

PRENDERGAST, Judge.

Appellant was convicted of arson and his penalty fixed, at the lowest prescribed by law,—five years in the penitentiary.

For a few years before August 27, 1911, F. B. Lam and W. L. Bogers were equal partners in two gins. They both live.d, and said gins were situated, in the town of Oglesby, Coryell County, Texas. The gins were 150 yards apart. It seems that Lam run one of the gins and 'Bogers the other. The mother of Lam was the sister of Bogers. Lam’s father was a brother of the wife of W. L. Bogers. Appellant was nineteen years of age in Januarjq 1911. His home was then…