Simms v. State

LATTIMORE, Judge.

Conviction for arson; punishment, two years in the penitentiary.

The facts in this record seem amply sufficient to support the conviction. The house burned belonged to appellant’s father and had been occupied by him as a home for forty years prior to the burning. Appellant had been married, separated from her husband, and came to her father’s home where she stayed for a while prior to the burning. She had been asked several times by her father to go away and make room for his unmarried son. She and her father quarreled about her removal on the night before the arson. He…