Owens v. State

Appellant was convicted by a jury of arson and appeals from the judgment and sentence entered on the conviction and from the denial of his motion for new trial.

Juanita Herrington (“Herrington”) testified at trial that she was visiting her friend, Sharon Cooper (“Cooper”), when appellant came to Cooper’s house. Herrington stated that appellant began pushing and shoving Cooper and that Herrington told appellant he should not push Cooper, to which appellant responded to Herrington, “I’m going to kill you and burn your car up, too. You’re going to burn baby, burn.” Herrington stated that on that…