Young v. State

BROOKS, Judge.

Appellant was convicted of murder in the second degree, and his punishment assessed at five years confinement in the penitentiary.

Appellant and deceased were negroes, living in the same neighborhood in Bed River County. From appellant’s standpoint deceased became intimate with his, appellant’s wife. He protested to the deceased in person against his attentions to his wife, and accused him on various occasions of being too intimate with her. He declared to various other parties that he was going to kill deceased on account of intimacy with his wife. On the morning of the homicide…