Honey v. State

Arson is the offense; punishment fixed at confinement in the penitentiary for a period of two yeárs.

Arson is defined as the willful burning of any house. P. G., art. 1304. The burning is complete when the fire has actually communicated to a house, though" it may be neither destroyed nor seriously injured. Article 1306. Article 1316 defines an attempt at arson thus: “Whoever, by any means calculated to effect the object, attempts to commit the offense of arson,” etc.

The subject of the offense was a house belonging to C. S. Appell. There was much testimony to the effect that the building was…