Hulsey v. State

BELCHER, Judge.

The offense is arson; the punishment, four years in the penitentiary.

John Renfro testified that appellant came to his service station between midnight and 3 A.M. on July 15, 1953, and purchased four gallons of gasoline which he carried away in a round five-gallon can he loaned him. Appellant said he was *247taking it to his brother who had run out of gasoline out on the highway and, after appellant had left, the witness heard fire sirens.

M. M. Hulsey, a brother of the appellant, testified for the state that he did not run out of gasoline on the night in question and did not see the…