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BROWN v. STATE

No. 26786.

267 S.W.2d 819 (1954)

BROWN v. STATE.

Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas.

February 3, 1954.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Harvey Lindsay, Sessions & Sessions, by W. R. Sessions, Dallas, for appellant.

Henry Wade, Crim. Dist. Atty., George P. Blackburn, James K. Allen, Asst. Dist. Attys., Dallas, Wesley Dice, State's Atty., Austin, for the State.

MORRISON, Judge.

The offense is murder; the punishment, death.

Lieutenant Morgan of the Dallas Fire Department testified that at 9:50 p. m. on December 31st he received a call to go to a certain block on Gunter Avenue; that when he arrived he found an automobile burning from within; that, while extinguishing the fire, he detected the odor of gasoline, determined that neither the engine or gas tank was burning; and that he found the partially burned body of...

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