Williams v. State

Reeves, Associate Justice.

In this case the evidence shows that the gin-house of Mr. H. Parker, with the machinery and about seventeen bales of cotton in the building, *210were destroyed by fire on the 29th January, 1878, between the hours of 9 and 10 o’clock at night, as stated by some of the witnesses, and asíate as 11 o’clock, as stated by one witness. The witnesses had been asleep, and having no time-piece, or their clocks having stopped running, caused by the cold weather, the hour of the burning was not fixed with any certainty. The appellant was indicted, charged with the burning of the…