Whitton v. State

Birdsong, Presiding Judge.

The defendant, Bobby Whitton, appeals his conviction of the offenses of arson in the second degree and arson in the third degree. The state indicted Wayne Carden, William “Buddy” Harper, and the defendant, on two counts of arson arising from the burning of Gable’s Sporting Goods Store in Douglasville, Georgia, on January 4, 1972. Terry Carden (Terry) stated that he was an orderly at the Bremen General Hospital in which Bobby Whitton was a patient on January 3, 1972. His sister, Eloise, picked him up at his cousin’s mobile home and took him and his cousin, Wayne…