Nash v. State

CALHOUN, Judge.

Arson is the offense; the punishment, two years in the penitentiary.

The evidence for the state in substance was as follows: Roy Akin, Jr., testified that he lived in Mexia, Texas, which is about thirty miles from the town of Corsicana; that on the evening of July 6th, .1931,. he was engaged in a filling station business; that the appellant between 9 and 10 o’clock at night bought from him three gallons of gasoline and that h.e said he wanted it for the purpose- of using it in a gasoline stove he had in his house; that he loaned him a five-gallon container to put the gasoline in…