Hinkley v. State

WOODLEY, Judge.

The offense is arson; the punishment, five years.

The evidence shows that some twenty minutes after appellant had been refused further credit and had been forcibly ejected from the Lounge operated by Mrs. Johnny M. Cox, by the bartender, the Lounge began to fill up with smoke and upon investigation it was found that an offset extension of the building was burning.

The fire was extinguished by a bucket brigade formed by the proprietor and her customers.

H. G. Wooten, Arson Investigator for the City of Houston, testified that the fire started in a small box like extension of the…