Hornsby v. State

The appellant rented a small farm in Monroe. County, on which he and his wife and children resided until the summer of 1923, when his wife died, and appellant and his children went to live with his mother, who resided near by. Walter Fells, who was twenty years old, and his wife, who was sixteen, lived on a farm about one and three-quarter miles from the appellant. After appellant’s wife died he entered into a contract with Fells, by which Fells and his wife were to move into the house, on the place where appellant and his wife lived prior to her death, to assist appellant.in gathering the…