Landers v. State

HENDERSON, Judge.

Appellant was convicted of arson, and his punishment assessed at confinement in the penitentiary for a term of five years; hence this appeal.

The case was one of purely circumstantial evidence. The theory of the State was that the house in question was set on fire by an explosion of dynamite. Several witnesses testified to hearing the explosion, and two or three testified to seeing a fire, or something burning, at or about the house after the explosion. The testimony of only one witness, to wit, R. D. Welborne, the owner of the house, tended to show any burning of the house.…