Goldsmith v. State

DAVIDSON, Presiding Judge.

Appellant was convicted of arson. The house burned was alleged to belong to Charles Burk. It was burned sometime about 11:30 o’clock at night. No one was occupying the house or the premises where the house was burned. It was some three miles or such a matter from where appellant and his mother lived. Continuance was sought on account of the absence of a witness named Jarrett, by whom he expected to prove that he was at the house of appellant about 12:30 o’clock the night the house was burned, and that appellant was then at home. This application was overruled, as was…