Baker v. State
Court of Appeals of Texas
Appeal from the District Court of Grayson. Tried below before the Hon. H. O. Head. The conviction in this case was for arson, and the penalty assessed against the appellant was a term of five years in the penitentiary. S. F. Darwin was the first witness for the State. He testified that he resided at the town of Pilot Point, and was an insurance agent by occupation.
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Appeal from the District Court of Grayson. Tried below before the Hon. H. O. Head. The conviction in this case was for arson, and the penalty assessed against the appellant was a term of five years in the penitentiary. S. F. Darwin was the first witness for the State. He testified that he resided at the town of Pilot Point, and was an insurance agent by occupation. He was acquainted with the defendant, and was familiar with the property which the defendant owned in the village of Tioga, Grayson county, Texas. On the twenty-seventh day of December, 1884, the defendant insured that property in…
1Opinion of the Court
Willson, Judge.
There are two counts in the indictment; the first charging that the defendant burned his own house, the said house being at the time insured; the second charged that he burned his own house, thereby endangering the safety of houses belonging to other persons. We are of the opinion that the indictment is substantially sufficient in both its counts, and that the defendant’s exceptions thereto and his motion in arrest of *25judgment were properly overruled. The locus in quo of the house burned is alleged sufficiently, the allegation being “a certain house then and there occupied,…
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