Carlyle v. State

CHRISTIAN, Judge. —

The offense is accomplice to arson; the punishment, confinement in the penitentiary for five years.

W. W. Stewart testified that appellant came to him and offered him the sum of fifty dollars to burn the house that appellant was occupying, and that he agreed to commit the offense; that appellant carried him to his home and acquainted him with the situation, and advised him that he would have a quantity of gasoline in the house; that thereafter, at a time when appellant was away on a fishing trip, he (the witness) went to the house, and using the gasoline that appellant…