Allen v. State

BELCHER, Judge.

The offense is arson; the punishment, four years in the penitentiary.

The testimony for the state shows that firemen arrived at the residence of Faye Reeves about 7 A.M. on March 2, 1955, found two fires in the front room and one in a closet which was constructed of sheetrock; that the ceiling in the closet had fallen because of the heat and the fire was behind it; and that “some of the wood was actually burned.” Captain Patterson of the fire department testified that in his opinion the fire was of incendiary origin.

Faye Reeves testified that she closed her residence and left at…