Mullins v. State

RICE, Judge.

Appellant, who had reached his three score years and ten, lived alone in a rented room up over one of the stores in Decatur, Alabama.

Plis friend Ed McDermott, the deceased, was well past his “three score years”, — in fact, near the half-wa.y mark toward the “ten.”

Ed fell on evil days; apparently, had nowhere to stay; and appellant “took him in.”

For some one year and a half, prior to the day which sets us writing, Ed had occupied appellant’s room as an invited, nonpaying, guest — appellant all the while, as we gather from the testimony, furnishing, free of charge, the food that Ed…