ALLEN v. STATE

No. 27846.

293 S.W.2d 605 (1956)

Ray Alvin ALLEN, Appellant, v. The STATE of Texas, Appellee.

Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas.

May 23, 1956.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Roy A. Scott and Walter E. Chastain, Corpus Christi (by Walter E. Chastain) Corpus Christi, for appellant.

Lee Mahoney, Asst. Dist. Atty., Corpus Christi, and Leon B. Douglas, State's Atty., Austin, for the State.


BELCHER, Commissioner.

The offense is arson; the punishment, four years in the penitentiary.

The testimony for the state shows that firemen arrived at the residence of Faye Reeves about 7 a. m. on March 2, 1955, found two fires in the front room and one in a closet which was constructed of sheetrock; that the ceiling in the closet had fallen because of the heat and the fire was behind it; and that "some of the wood was actually burned." Captain Patterson of...

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