Young v. Commonwealth

Opinion of the Court by

Judge Rees

Affirming.

Appellant was convicted of manslaughter under an indictment charging him and his son, Frank Young, with the murder of Ed Bingham. The indictment in the first count charged a conspiracy, and in the second count it charged alternately John Young and Frank Young as principal and the other as aider and abettor. The court in the instructions submitted to the jury all these phases of the case. Appellant’s punishment was fixed at confinement in the penitentiary for a period of 2 years. His son and co-defendant had theretofore been tried and convicted of…