State v. . Bethea

'The homicide occurred on Saturday night, 25 May, 1923. About seventy-five people had come together at the home of Ratty Bethea, father of the prisoner, to attend a festival projected for the benefit of a church. They were entertained, it is said, with music and dancing and “barbecue and liquor.” The house had two rooms with a porch in front. There was evidence tending to show that Peter Fields, the deceased, had gone from the yard into the porch; that some one “cursed out there,” whereupon the prisoner’s mother called to him to come from the porch into the house; that the deceased followed…