State v. . Carr

The evidence tends to show the following circumstances: The deceased and his family lived on the second floor of a house used for packing tobacco. The room was about twenty-four steps long, and had one door opening from a porch on the front which was reached by a stairway. Near the middle of the room was a curtain intended as a partition, the space occupied by the deceased and his wife being on the north side and on the south the space occupied by the children. There was a window in the rear of the room. The bed on which Robert and his wife slept was between the door and the curtain. The…