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JERNIGAN v. STATE

No. 57277.

589 S.W.2d 681 (1979)

Miles Jackson JERNIGAN, Appellant, v. The STATE of Texas, Appellee.

Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas, Panel No. 1.

Rehearing Denied November 28, 1979.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Jack R. Bailey, Marvin O. Teague, Houston, for appellant.

Tom Hanna, Dist. Atty. and John R. DeWitt, Asst. Dist. Atty., Beaumont, Robert Huttash, State's Atty., Austin, for the State.

Before ONION, P. J., and ROBERTS and CLINTON, JJ.

Rehearing En Banc Denied November 28, 1979.

OPINION

CLINTON, Judge.

The offense is arson as proscribed by Article 1304 and related provisions of Title 17 in the 1925 Penal Code. Upon a jury verdict of guilty, the trial court assessed punishment at 10 years confinement in the Texas Department of Corrections.

The judgment of conviction is assailed by twenty-one grounds of error, the first three raising sufficiency of the evidence to support...

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