Pierson v. State

— This is an appeal from a judgment of conviction upon an affidavit charging appellant, together with three others, with the crime of conspiracy to commit arson. Appellant upon his own motion was granted a separate trial from his codefendants, and the cause was submitted to a jury for trial on the issue formed by the plea of not guilty to the charge in the affidavit. The only error assigned is that the court erred in overruling appellant’s motion for a new trial. In appellant’s motion for a new trial he insists that the court erred in- giving, over objection of appellant, certain instructions…