Balkum v. State

SAMFORD, Judge.

The defendant was indicted on a charge that he did willfully set fire to, or burned, or caused to be burned, etc., a dwelling house, the property of Richard Flowers.

The ownership of the property was properly laid in Richard Flowers, the tenant. Faulk v. State, 23 Ala.App. 213, 123 So. 104; Adams et al. v. State, 62 Ala. 177. As to what business the tenant was engaged in at the time of the fire, as a means of livelihood, is immaterial, and the State’s objection to the question seeking to bring out this evidence, was free from error.-

The question propounded to the witness Cauley,…