Brown v. State

The facts, as shown by this record, disclose that on January 2, 1923, a building in the city of Eufaula, partly occupied by this defendant as a vulcanizing shop, etc., was destroyed by fire, and that in said fire two unfortunate people, father and daughter, who occupied living rooms on the second floor of said building, perished; that on or about March 12th, 1923, this defendant was arrested upon a warrant sworn out by one Shaffer, a deputy state fire marshal, which charged the defendant with arson in the first degree, in that he willfully set fire to or burned said building, etc. On May 1,…