Fralick v. State

Defendant was convicted of murder in the first degree and sentenced to death. He appeals from the judgment and the order overruling his motion for new trial. At the time he is alleged to have committed the crime (December 19, 1921) he *6was, and had been for some four months, an inmate of the Industrial School, an institution for the confinement of neglected, dependent, incorrigible, and delinquent children under the age of eighteen years.

The deceased, "Walter W. Layton, was an employee of such institution, and on the day he was killed was in charge of a squad of some eight or nine of its…