State v. Foust

The State’s evidence presents these facts:

On the morning of 5 January 1962 defendant, James Monroe Foust, a boy about sixteen years of age, had been hunting in the woods near the Bull home with a 22-410 combination rifle and shotgun, with the rifle barrel on top and the shotgun barrel on the bottom. Sylvia Elaine Bull, a sixteen-year-old girl with whom he had been going, gave him this rifle and gun combination as a 1961 Christmas present. About noon he went to the Bull home. He knocked, was admitted by Tomaka Bull, and went into the “den-kitchen” where Sylvia was asleep on a little bed or…