THORNTON v. STATE

3 Div. 189.

179 So.2d 776 (1965)

Roy Lee THORNTON v. STATE.

Court of Appeals of Alabama.

November 2, 1965.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Tucker & Hildreth, Atmore, for appellant.

Richmond M. Flowers, Atty. Gen., and John C. Tyson, III, Asst. Atty. Gen., for the State.


PRICE, Presiding Judge.

Appellant was convicted of arson in the first degree and sentenced to the penitentiary for a term of five years.

It is without dispute that a house occupied by Mrs. Julia Thornton, defendant's sister-in-law, was partially destroyed by fire about eleven o'clock on the night of August 27, 1964.

Mrs. Thornton testified her husband had left her and their children some twelve years ago; that she had resided in the old farmhouse since...

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