State v. Youngquist

Defendant, convicted of murder in the first degree, appeals. About seven o’clock in the evening of January 20, 1928, Milo Smith, who lived on a farm in Pine county, about two miles west of Rutledge, was shot down in his home. Budd Snoek and defendant were jointly indicted charged with the crime. They were tried separately, Snoek being tried first and convicted.

Defendant lived about two and one-half miles west of Smith on the same highway, called the Rutledge road. Early in the morning on the day of the crime defendant’s dwelling burned down. He and his two boys, eight and ten years old, found…