Blalock v. State

Deen, Judge.

No evidence in this case at any time places Blalock at the location of the Daniels home which was burned. Although certain valuables were missing from the house after the fire, none was ever connected with the defendant. No other motive was suggested. There was expert testimony from which the jury was authorized to find that the fire was hastened by some fuel additive such as gasoline, and the testimony of a dentist that teeth found in the ashes along with part of a jawbone belonged to Perryman, but Blalock’s connection with Perry-man shows no more than that they plus a third man…