State v. Baker

The circumstances of the killing of one Claude Grice by the defendant, with which he was charged in the indictment, so far as material to a consideration of the errors relied upon for reversal, were as follows: The deceased and his brother, Marion, were engaged in operating a bakery in Bed Oak, occupying for that purpose the first floor and basement of a building which fronted to, the east. The stairs to the basement were at the rear or west end of the building. On the day preceding the homicide the defendant and his younger brother Newton were with the deceased in the bakery, when something…