Davis v. State

About three o’clock in the afternoon of October 21, 1925, two men, one of whom was a deputy sheriff, put a horse, which they had with them, in the yard or lot near the dwelling house of J. E. Higginbotham, who with his family lived on the Tomoka River in Volusia County.

Nearly two hours afterwards the accused, Arthur Davis, his wife and two children drove up to the Higginbotham home and demanded possession of the horse, claiming the right to its possession. Davis was armed with a rifle and a pistol. Declining an invitation to come in the house, *261which had been extended to him and his family by…