People v. Lahnala

August Lahnala was a farmer living in Stanton township, Houghton county, west, or northwest of Houghton, on a highway known as the canal road. The 5th day of September, 1914, was Saturday. August Lahnala, some of his children, and some hired men worked that day on his farm baling hay. In the evening he went to Oskar, a point between *145his farm and Houghton, purchased and carried home some articles, riding a part of the distance, and to the entrance to his farm, with an acquaintance. He arrived home about 8 o’clock. His wife, some of his minor children, and a hired man had retired in the upper…