Lyons v. State

CHRISTIAN, Judge.

The offense is arson; the punishment, confinement in the penitentiary for two years.

Appellant, his wife and their small children lived in a house in the city of Tyler which appellant had purchased from C. E. Smith for an expressed consideration of ten dollars in cash and the assumption by appellant of $3500 outstanding indebtedness due the United States Savings Bank, of Detroit, Michigan. Appellant had arranged for $400 insurance on his furniture. The insurance agent testified that he would have given appellant approximately $750 insurance on his furniture if he had desired…