CONROE, Texas (AP) — A Texas man is set for arraignment on a capital murder charge in a childhood attack on a boy who died nearly 13 years later.
Authorities say Don Willburn Collins was 13 when he poured gasoline on Robert Middleton and set him on fire during Middleton’s eighth birthday in 1998.
Middleton survived but died in 2011 of skin cancer authorities blamed on his injuries.
Now 29, Collins is jailed on $1 million bond and is to appear at an arraignment hearing Thursday in Conroe.
A Montgomery County grand jury’s indictment last month came after a judge ruled in March that Collins’ case could be transferred from juvenile to adult court.
E. Tay Bond, Collins’ attorney, has said there’s no credible evidence in the case that could lead to a conviction.
