State v. . Covington

* FURCHES, J., having been of counsel in the court below, did not sit on the hearing of this appeal. It appeared from the evidence that the deceased was part owner, as a stockholder and general superintendent, of Long Island Cotton Mills, and that he lived with his family about 250 yards from the mill, and that the prisoner was an employee at the mill, being superintendent of the spinning room. It further appears that the deceased had a stock of merchandise in a storehouse about 100 feet from the mill, and that for more than a year someone had been occasionally entering said store by means of…