Copeland v. State

1. - The court instructed the jury as follows: “When arson is charged, the burden is on the State to show, either by direct or by indirect or circumstantial evidence, or by some circumstantial evidence satisfactory to the jury, that the house was actually burned by some criminal agency. Second, the burden is on the State to show that the man the State says did it was the man that did it. Now, when the State does-that, if the defendant’s evidence is insufficient to raise a reasonable doubt in your minds, and the State shows those two things beyond a reasonable doubt, that is all the law…