Woolsey v. State
Court of Appeals of Texas
Appeal from the District Court of Johnson. Tried below before Hon. J. M. Hall. This appeal is from a conviction of arson, the punishment assessed being five years in the penitentiary. The opinion sufficiently states the facts.
1Opinion of the Court
WHITE, Presiding Judge.
Appellant was tried and convicted in the court below on an indictment containing three counts charging him with arson. These counts differed only in the allegations as to the owner of the house burned. In the third count the allegation was: “Did then and there unlawfully and willfully set fire to and burn the house of J. B. Truelove, there situate, which said house was then and there occupied by the said H. P. Woolsey and M. E. Hawkins as tenants.” In his charge submitting the case to the jury the learned trial judge confined them to the above count as quoted, and the…
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