Lemley v. State

Krueger, Judge.

Appellant was convicted of the offense of arson, and his punishment was assessed at confinement in the State Penitentiary for a term of five years.

It was charged in the indictment, omitting the formal parts, that on or about the 27th day of August, 1935, J. S. Lemley did unlawfully and wilfully set fire to and burn the house of Rayford McNabb and W. P. McLean. The testimony shows that on the night of August 27, the appellant, Cleve Barnes, and a man by the name of Taylor went to the old E. Y. Jennings farm in Stephens County, Texas, and burned a house thereon situated which had…