Capps v. State

Plaintiff in error, hereinafter called defendant, was convicted in district court, Tulsa county, of arson and his punishment fixed at eighteen months in the penitentiary.

On the date charged a dwelling house in Tulsa, belonging to a Mrs. Craft, was destroyed by fire. Defendant had acted as the agent of Mrs. Craft on different occasions and they had life insurance policies payable to each other. The state seeks to show that defendant procured one Arthur Clark to bum the house. Millard Green •testified defendant told him he had a fire'job he wanted dohe and asked him if he could get some one to…