Black v. State

LATTIMORE, Judge.

Conviction for arson; punishment, two years in the penitentiary.

Appellant was charged in the count submitted to the jury with burning a house belonging to Sadie Black. The testimony shows without contradiction that appellant and his wife, Sadie Black, had been divorced some time prior to the fire in question, and that at said time appellant had deeded all of his property over to his wife. Two of the children of appellant testified orally to the fact that the property in question belonged to their mother.

Appellant has some complaint based on the proposition that oral testimony…