Williams v. State

Plaintiff in error, Bill Williams, a negro about 45 years of age, in this opinion referred to as the defendant, was by information filed in the district court of Pittsburg county, June 11,1917, charged with arson in the second degree, by setting fire to and burning an old gin and seed house at Featherston on May 23, 1917. At the first trial the jury failed to agree on a verdict. At the second trial, December 3, 1919, the defendant by a verdict of the jury was found guilty as charged and his punishment fixed at five years in the penitentiary. In due course judgment was rendered accordingly,…