Young v. State
Court of Appeals of Texas
Appeal from the District Court of Ellis. Tried below before the Hon. Anson Rainey. The death penalty was assessed against the appellant by the jury which convicted him of murder in the first degree upon an indictment which charged him with the murder of Fannie Young, in Ellis county, Texas, on the 2d day of April, 1885. The appellant and his victim were both negroes. Mattie Henderson was the first witness for the State.
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Appeal from the District Court of Ellis. Tried below before the Hon. Anson Rainey. The death penalty was assessed against the appellant by the jury which convicted him of murder in the first degree upon an indictment which charged him with the murder of Fannie Young, in Ellis county, Texas, on the 2d day of April, 1885. The appellant and his victim were both negroes. Mattie Henderson was the first witness for the State. She testified that the deceased, whose proper name was Fannie Henderson, was her mother. Witness’s father, from whom the defendant took the deceased, was still living in…
1Opinion of the Court
Hurt, Judge.
George Young was tried and convicted of murder of the first degree for the killing of Fannie Young, the death penalty being assessed by the jury.
Two bills of exceptions appear in the record. 1st. It appears that F. M. Maxwell remarked to the jury in the opening argument: “ Gentlemen, in the back part of this court room sit a number of negroes, who are watching this trial to see if you will punish a negro for murdering his wife. If you don’t convict this negro, people will not bring them to trial hereafter, but will hang them on the spot where the crime is committed. If you turn…
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