Houston v. State

This appeal challenges the sufficiency of the evidence to convict the appellant of murder in the first degree in a trial by the court without a jury. The accused, a negro boy eighteen years of age, was sentenced to life imprisonment. It was shown that as he was returning home about 10:30 P. M., he joined a group of boys, two of whom were fighting, and got into an argument with his older brother. The appellant ran home, obtained his father’s rifle,,which he had previously loaded with stolen ammunition, and returned with the intention, as he admitted to the police, to shoot his brother. Another…