Allen v. State

HARPER, Judge.

In this case appellant was charged with arson, and upon a trial he was convicted and sentenced to five years confinement in the penitentiary.

1. This is a case of purely circumstantial evidence, and defendant insists that the circumstances do not link up with that certainty as to authorize a conviction.

Tt appears from the record that defendant was in charge of the gin that was burned, and had been managing it. A few days before the gin was burned he had instructed W. L. Tidwell, who was working for him, to take some bagging out of the gin house, saying to the witness it might…