Perkins v. State

Smith,, C. J.,

delivered the opinion of the court.

The appellant was convicted of murder and sentenced to be hung.

■The evidence for the state discloses that John G. Harbin, who was sixty-three years of age and in good health, lived alone on a small farm in a one-story four-room house. The appellant, his servant and tenant, lived about three hundred yards therefrom. One of Harbin’s customs was to read at night, sitting in a chair leaning against the side of-his bed. About ten o’clock one night, his house was discovered by a passerby to be on fire. Several of his neighbors reached the scene…