McDowell v. State

OPINION

WILLIAM J. CORNELIUS, Justice. **

In a jury trial, Kelly Diane McDowell was convicted of arson. The jury assessed McDowell’s punishment at seventy years’ confinement, and found that she used a deadly weapon, gasoline, in committing the offense.

McDowell appeals, raising three issues: (1) legal and factual insufficiency of the evidence to support the conviction; (2) insufficient evidence to support the jury’s deadly weapon finding; and (3) the trial court’s denial of McDowell’s application for community supervision. We overrule these issues and affirm the judgment.

McDowell lived for a…