Blankenship v. State

WOODLEY, Judge.

The offense is arson; the punishment, two years.

The house which burned on the night of February 8, 1958, is described in the evidence as an old house consisting of an early type bus chassis used as a bedroom, around which had been built a frame room on the west, used as a living room, and another room on the east used as a kitchen, with two porches on the south, one in front and the other in back of the bus chassis. It was an old house, “pretty well run down”; “an old beat up house.”

There was no water piped to the house and no bathroom.

Appellant obtained a fire insurance policy…