Heard v. State

Hon. G. T. Fitzhugh, Special Judge,

delivered the opinion of the Court.

Plaintiff in error was indicted, in the criminal court of Shelby county for burning the dwelling house of one Thomas James. He was tried, convicted, and sentenced to five years imprisonment in the State penitentiary. Motions for a new trial and in arrest of judgment having been overruled, he brought the case to this court, and has assigned several reasons why the case should be reversed. It is insisted that the State failed to prove that Thos. James was the owner of the house which was burned, as alleged in the indictment;…