Saunders v. State

OPINION

REEVES, Justice.

Appellant was convicted by a jury of conspiracy to commit arson. TEXAS PENAL CODE ANN. § 15.02. The trial court assessed punishment at five years’ confinement.

We shall first address appellant’s argument that the evidence was insufficient to support his conviction. The state’s theory presented to the jury was that appellant had his house burned down in order to collect insurance proceeds. James Woodley, an old friend of appellant’s, testified that appellant approached him with a request to burn the house while appellant would be out of the state. Woodley refused. Shortly…