Moore v. State

HENDEBSON, Judge.

Appellant was convicted of arson, and his punishment assessed at five years confinement in the penitentiary; and prosecutes this appeal.

This is' a case" depending wholly on circumstantial evidence, the theory of the State being that appellant became offended at the prosecutor, J. E. Tomlinson, a day or two before the alleged arson, because prosecutor had requested appellant not to come on his place any more. Besides this motive, the other proof on the part of the State consisted mainly of tracks which were testified to by some of the witnesses for the State as in size and…