Riddings v. State

Eberhardt, Judge.

While the evidence strongly indicates a probability that the defendants may have caused the *335burning of two houses, it is wholly circumstantial and does not exclude every other reasonable hypothesis. It appears that defendants’ mother had rented one of the houses and moved into it but when the only water supply, a well, failed she had to move out and the landlord refused to make any adjustment or refund of the rent. There is no confession by the defendants. They do admit their presence in the vicinity of the houses about the time of the occurrence of the fire, but, testifying…