What constitutes a case of arson?
Of course, arson is a felony. Sec. 28.02 of the Texas Penal Code lays out the offenses of arson … If you’re in your house and you have a candle burning, you forget it and it starts a fire, that’s an accidental fire. If you’ve got $3 million insurance on your $1,000 home and you leave the house – leaving the candle near combustibles and knowing those flames will hit those combustibles in 35 minutes – that’s arson because you intentionally set the fire to collect insurance. That’s also insurance fraud. A lot of the people we deal with are afraid to talk to us, (but) what we’re trying to do is get some basic information. They think if they leave a candle burning, that the insurance company won’t pay, but that’s not true. It’s knowingly and intentionally setting the fire. Normally in an arson case there’s no DNA, no fingerprints. The hard-type evidence is burned up. Many of our cases are proven on a preponderance of circumstantial evidence. What criteria determines whether a house is dem
