Nash v. State

ON MOTION FOR REHEARING.

LATTIMORE, Judge.

In Wilson v. State (Texas Crim. App.), 24 S. W., 649, Judge Hurt says it is not the law that in arson cases ownership must be proved by deed or some writing. The same doctrine is announced in the cases discussed in the original opinion, and we intended to follow this doctrine, and, if we did not make it plain, we here now say that proof of ownership of the property alleged to have been burned in arson cases can ordinarily be made by parol. We find in this state no cases holding directly contrary to this, but, in so far as any intimation or suggestion…