Baker v. State

MARTIN, Judge.

Offense, arson; penalty, two years in the penitentiary.

On the night of January 4, 1929, the grocery store of L. H. Lehne in the town of Ft. McKavit in Menard County was partly burned down. The State introduced two accomplices, Joe McDaniel and George Crump, whose testimony makes a complete offense both as to themselves and the appellant, C. B. Baker. We regard the testimony as sufficient to show independent of that of the accomplices that the fire was of an incendiary origin and that the corpus delicti is sufficiently proven. We further regard the testimony aside from that of…