Kelley v. State

MORROW, Judge.

—The conviction is for arson. The appellant was under contract to supply a company in France with a large number of railroad ties, and near his sawmill there were situated about 10,000 of these ties, and these, together with about 100,000 feet of lumber belonging to the appellant were destroyed by fire on the night of December 1, 1917. The house in which the appellant and his employee Barrett lived, the ties covering about a third of an acre of land, the mill, the lumber pile, and a commissary or cookshack occupied by one LeBlanc—another employee— were situated near a public…