MacHado v. State

WARREN, Justice.

Appellant was charged in a two-paragraph indictment with the offense of arson, and was found guilty by a jury. The court found the two enhancement paragraphs to be true, and assessed punishment at 25 years imprisonment. Appellant brings three points of error complaining of the sufficiency of the evidence and the court’s refusal to charge the jury on circumstantial evidence.

On July 19, 1987, between 2:00 and 2:30 a.m., a fire broke out in an upstairs storage room of Cinema X, an adult theatre. An arson investigator testified that the fire was deliberately set. James Williams, a…