HINKLEY v. STATE

No. 38195.

389 S.W.2d 667 (1965)

Arwood Francis HINKLEY, Appellant, v. The STATE of Texas, Appellee.

Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas.

May 5, 1965.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Jim L. DeFoyd, Houston, for appellant.

Frank Briscoe, Dist. Atty., Carl E. F. Dally, James C. Brough and Joe Shaffer, Asst. Dist. Attys., Houston, and Leon B. Douglas, State's Atty., Austin, for the State.


WOODLEY, Judge.

The offense is arson; the punishment, five years.

The evidence shows that some twenty minutes after appellant had been refused further credit and had been forcibly ejected from the Lounge operated by Mrs. Johnny M. Cox, by the bartender, the Lounge began to fill up with smoke and upon investigation it was found that an offset extension of the building was burning.

The fire was extinguished by a bucket brigade formed by the proprietor...

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