Lowery v. State

PRICE, Judge!

Appellant was convicted of the offense of arson in the first degree and was sentenced to the penitentiary for a term of ten years.

It is undisputed in the evidence that a house owned by one Ellis Murphy, occupied as her home by Mrs. Minnie Hill and members of her family, was completely destroyed by fire on Monday, August 23, 1954.

For the State, James Henry Brown testified he spent the night preceding the fire at appellant’s home. Witness and appellant drank home-brew until late in the night and during their conversation appellant asked Brown to do a job for him, which was to “burn…