Langford v. State

CHRISTIAN, Judge.

Appellant was convicted of being an accomplice in the crime of arson, and his punishment fixed at five years confinement in the penitentiary.

Appellant - owned a rooming house in Sherman, Texas, near Kidd-Key College, which had rented for $75 or $80 per month sometime before appellant purchased the property. Appellant bought the house on December 2, 1930, from L. L. Montgomery. The cash payment recited in the deed was $2,270. Further, it was recited in the deed that appellant assumed the payment of a note on the property in the sum of approximately $5,000. The note was held by…