Youngblood v. State

Appellant was indicted in the circuit court of Boone County for the crime of murder in the first degree for killing Ed Blevins. He was tried and convicted of murder in the second degree. The verdict of conviction was set aside, and a new trial granted. Upon retrial he was convicted of manslaughter and adjudged to serve a term of seven years in the State Penitentiary as punishment therefor. From the judgment of conviction an appeal has been duly prosecuted to this court.

The first assignment of error insisted upon for a reversal of the judgment is that the trial court permitted the prosecuting…