Splawn v. State

WOODLEY, Judge.

Arson is the offense; the punishment, two years in the penitentiary.

The indictment alleged that appellant wilfully burned a house, of which he was the owner, there being within said house property belonging to one Theodore W. Andrews.

The burned house was a tenant house in the East part of Belton. It was located on a 6-acre tract of land, some 200 yards southwest of the house occupied by appellant and his wife and daughter.

Andrews, a sergeant in a Medical Detachment at Ft. Hood, testified that he rented the house in question from appellant and had occupied it with his family as…