Knowles v. State

The indictment charged that the defendant “did wantonly and maliciously shoot 'a pistol or other firearms at, into, in or through the dwelling house of Am-mons Weaver,” etc. The alleged “dwelling house” was a canvas tent in' which Ammons Weaver was sleeping the night of the shooting. The tent was in a lumber camp. Weaver reached the camp the day of the shooting and had been in the tent only a few hours when the shooting occurred. So far as the evidence shows, there was no article of furniture in the tent except the iron bed, with mattress on which Weaver was sleeping. The question for…