Ward v. State

DAVIDSON, Presiding Judge.

On change of venue this case was tried in Floyd County, the offense having been alleged to have been committed in Briscoe County, where the indictment was returned. This is a case of circumstantial evidence.

The substance of the evidence for the State is, that a barn was burned at night near the midnight hour and in the same neighborhood another barn and some hay stacks were burned. Appellant was arrested for this burning. That near the burning were some horse and human foot tracks. These horse tracks were traced from the scene of the burning to appellant’s residence.…