Youngblood v. State

The appellant, Hosea Youngblood, was indicted and tried in February 1952, for the alleged murder of Bay Broomfield on December 8, 1951. The jury convicted the accused of the crime of manslaughter and he was sentenced to serve a term of fifteen years in the state penitentiary. Upon his appeal here he assigns as ground,® for a reversal of the case (1) that the trial court denied his motion to exclude the evidence at the close of the State’s case and direct a verdict in his favor; (2) that he was refused a peremptory instruction at the close of all of the evidence; (3) that the verdict is…