Fritz v. State

Appellant was convicted of murder in tbe first degree, the jury fixing as punishment therefor the death penalty.

On September 2, 1907, appellant, then a boy little past sixteen years of age, was sentenced to the Indiana Reformatory to serve an indeterminate term of from one to fourteen years for grand larceny. His early life had been hard. His home surroundings were not good. He had worked in the stone quarries from the age of ten years, with companion laborers whose association had no tendency to refine his character. He had little schooling. His father and one brother were in the state…