Brown v. State

CARR, Judge.

The appellants were jointly tried and convicted in the Circuit Court of Lauder-dale County, Alabama, on an indictment charging arson, more specifically that they willfully set fire to, or burned, or aided or procured the burning of a barn, the property of William Marshall Camp.

Appellant Luther Brown is the father of appellant Dennis Brown and the brother-in-law of William Marshall Camp.

Appellants’ most insistent contention for error is .the refusal of the trial court to give, as requested, the general affirmative charge in behalf of each appellant because of a failure in the…