Smith v. State

DAVIDSON, Presiding Judge.

This is a conviction for arson, the . punishment being assessed at five years in the penitentiary.

The State relied in the main upon the testimony of Capers. His testimony shows him to be an accomplice, or partieeps criminis in the alleged burning. He was permitted, over appellant’s objection, to testify to numerous other cases of arson and conspiracy to commit arson, conspiracy to commit burglary, to burglarize a hotel and steal money, or to rob the hotel and to steal the money from the hotel. In some of these matters he implicates himself and appellant only, and in…