Hart v. State

STATON, Judge.

When Howard Schweitzer, a volunteer fireman and railroad car inspector answered a fire alarm on October 1, 1978 at approximately 9:20 P.M. in the Griffith railroad yard, he saw his red, 1972 Ford pickup truck engulfed in flames. Before the alarm, he had left the truck about a half mile away and just north of Schererville at a house trailer. Later the same evening, he found the house trailer engulfed in flames.

Gary Alan Hart had been identified by Jimmy Jackson, a brakeman for E. J. & E. Railroad, as one of the two men in a red Corvair that he observed in the railroad yard just…