Traylor v. State

CHRISTIAN, Judge.

— The offense is arson; the punishment confinement in the penitentiary for two years.

It was the state’s theory that appellant burned the Mt. Mariah Church for colored people. Testimony of the state tended to show that appellant went to the church alone in an automobile at night and set fire thereto. Automobile and human tracks were found in the vicinity of the church. A paif of shoes taken from appellant’s residence by the sheriff shortly after the fire fitted the human tracks perfectly. '

On the morning after the burning the sheriff went to appellant’s home for the purpose of…