Crowder v. State

DAVIDSON, Judge.

The indictment, omitting formal parts, recites that appellant “in the county and State aforesaid, did unlawfully and wilfully and fraudulently set fire to and burn the house of G. E. Gregory, there situate.” It is contended in various ways that the case can not be sustained on the indictment nor under the facts. Without taking up the matters seriatim but treating the subject generally, the State’s theory of the case was that Gregory owned a house in the town of Tombean, and employed Giles, a witness who turned State’s evidence, and appellant to burn that house. That this…