Irwin v. State

HARWOOD, Judge.

This appellant stands convicted under an indictment charging that he “wilfully, wantonly, maliciously, or with wanton negligence, set on fire or caused or procured to be set on fire, woods, brush, grass, -or other inflammable vegetation oif land not owned, leased, or controlled by him,” etc.

The conduct charged is denounced by Section 204, Title 8, Code of Alabama 1940, as amended.

*318The evidence presented by the State consists of the testimony of Mr. and- Mrs. Otis Baggett.

Their testimony tends to show that late in an afternoon in Januajry or February 1950 they were- driving along…