Beard v. State

Defendant and deceased were friends and neighbors, both were married, and both were small farmers, each running a one-horse farm. They were in constant association and frequently exchanged work; the defendant using deceased’s mule to make a team, and vice versa. On the night of the homicide, deceased came to defendant’s house and induced defendant to go with him some distance away, to return some hinges to an old house, from which they had been formerly taken by deceased and about which there had been some talk in the community. Defendant wanted to wait and go in the daytime, but deceased…