Day v. State

1. Where a man was inside a house of bad repute with the inmates, and two other men came to the door and demanded admittance, one of them kicking the door and threatening to “turn the house over” when the keeper refused to allow them to enter, but did not threaten the man within, or appear to know of his presence, and the latter shot and killed such person as he and his companion were leaving, it was admissible, on the trial of the slayer for murder, to show that he did not live there and the house was not his home.(a) The allowance, in the same connection, of an additional statement that he…