CATES, Judge.
Two indictments combined for trial: (1) second degree burglary and grand larceny; (2) arson in the first degree. Verdicts: guilty. Punishment: three and five years under respective sentences.
The tendencies of the State's evidence were:
On the night of November 5, 1960, about ten, P.M., Joe Smith and Howard Lane, fourteen and fifteen years of age at the time, were outside the Martin Theatre in Roanoke where Lane worked as an usher.
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