State v. Summers

Litz, Judge :

The defendant, E. R. Summers, was tried, convicted and sentenced to life imprisonment upon an indictment charging him with the murder of Oley Oobb.

The homicide occurred about 1:30 A. M. July 30, 1935, in a small one-room building in Boone County used by Summers as a confectionery and beer parlor. The structure, which stood near the public road, was arranged with two doors: a front door facing the road and a side door leading out onto a board walk about three feet high and connecting with the porch of á residence immediately to the rear, in which he, his wife and an infant child…