Lovelady v. State

The defendant, a boy seventeen years old, and weighing 110 pounds, was indicted for the killing of another boy twenty-one years old and weighing 160 pounds, by stabbing him with a knife. The boys had been friends and associates from infancy, but on the day of the homicide there was a half-gallon fruit jar of whisky; the big boy drank some of it, a falling out between the friends, an assault by the dead boy, and the stabbing by the defendant, from which the deceased died.

For the purposes of this opinion, it will be unnecessary to set out the evidence. It will suffice to say that the evidence…