BLANKENSHIP v. STATE

No. 30134.

319 S.W.2d 107 (1958)

Fenis BLANKENSHIP, Appellant, v. STATE of Texas, Appellee.

Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas.

November 26, 1958.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

George E. Cochran, A. L. Wardlaw, Fort Worth, Oran Smith, Jr., Cleburne, for appellant.

Leon B. Douglas, State's Atty., Austin, for the State.


WOODLEY, Judge.

The offense is arson; the punishment, two years.

The house which burned on the night of February 8, 1958, is described in the evidence as an old house consisting of an early type bus chassis used as a bedroom, around which had been built a frame room on the west, used as a living room, and another room on the east used as a kitchen, with two porches on the south, one in front and the other in back of the bus chassis. It was an old house, "pretty...

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