Garza v. State

KRUEGER, Judge.

The offense is willfully burning personal property of another; the punishment assessed is a fine of $1000.

It appears from the record that on the night of September 1, 1938, a stock car belonging to the Pennsylvania Railroad Company was discovered to be on fire while it was sitting on the switch tracks of the Missouri-Pacific Railroad Company in the City of San Antonio. A few days thereafter, appellant was arrested and while under arrest made a confession in which he admitted that he set fire to three railway cars on the night in question. On the trial, he repudiated his…