Stone v. State

HARPER, Judge.

Appellant was convicted of arson and his punishment assessed at five years confinement in the State penitentiary.

Appellant earnestly insists that the circumstances are insufficient to sustain the verdict. We have read and re-read the testimony, and while the only circumstances depended upon to show appellant guilty are (1) that appellant had ill-will towards the person who had the house rented, and (2) tracks leading from the building to appellant’s house, and his conduct when he saw the officers following the tracks, yet, taking the tracks as shown by the plot and the way they…