Davenport v. State

Plaintiff in error was convicted of the crime of arson; his motion for a new trial was overruled, and the case is here for review. The view we entertain of the merits makes it unnecessary to pass on the special assignments of error. The evidence, *103in substance, is as follows: Plaintiff in error was a negro. He got off a passenger-train at Hull, Georgia, about 13 o’clock at night. He was drunk and the marshal of 'the town arrested him and put him in the jail or guard-house. There was no one else in the jail or guard-house, and no fire was in there at the time. About an hour after his…