Coleman v. State

Two of appellant’s five assignments of error are not argued and therefore do not require review. Two others are not well taken for reasons not necessary to elaborate upon.

As to the remaining assignment, appellant has good grounds for her complaint. It was competent for the state to show the motive of appellant in attempting to burn the house, if she did so, and it was competent, therefore, to show that appellant was intensely enamored of a man believed by her to be in the house with another woman and that her purpose, driven by her jealousy, was to burn him out of there, as two or three…