State v. Taylor

Dill Taylor was' sentenced to ten years imprisonment for the second degree murder of his friend Mattie Keith. He appealed.

'Mattie (probably short for Matthew) Keith, 62 years old, and his brother Bill Keith, 76 years old, lived together in a cabin in the country outside of Caplinger Mills in Cedar County. Mattie raised' and trained hunting dogs. Dill Taylor would bring his dogs out to the Keiths about every Saturday night to get the Keiths to go hunting with him. He 'would usually show up drunk and if the Keiths would not go hunting he would fight them. A number of times the Keiths hid from…