Carr v. State

Benham, Chief Justice.

This appeal is from Weldon Wayne Carr’s convictions of malice murder and first degree arson. Carr’s wife died in a fire in their home. He recounted to authorities that he awoke and realized there was a fire downstairs in their home; that he tried to get his wife to escape with him through a bedroom window, but she resisted and tried to go toward the fire; and that he lost her in the smoke and confusion after a struggle, but finally saved himself by jumping out of a second-story window. The State’s theory of the case was that Carr set the fire, then injured his wife so…