Kiel v. State

SAMFORD, Judge.

The homicide was committed at night in a room about sixteen by eighteen feet where a number of negroes were gathered for a supper and for fun and frolic. There was but one light in the room and that was a lamp. The deceased, Sam McVay, was drinking and circulating among those present and on two occasions had put out the light. Just before the fatal difficulty he was warned by several of those present not to put out the light again, and one of those who asked him not to put out the light again was this defendant. The third time the deceased, in spite of the request and warning,…