Pitts v. State

Upon an indictment charging murder in the first degree by fatally cutting Richard Wood with a knife, Charley Pitts, a minor over eighteen years of age, was convicted of murder in the first degree with a recom*439mendation for mercy, and sentenced to life imprisonment in the State Prison.

It appears that the deceased was fatally cnt about nine o’clock at night, at the home of Jack Wood whose wife was the defendant’s sister. The defendant was “staying there,” and his mother and father were “spending the night” there.

A statute of the State provides: ‘ ‘ That when any minor, not married, may be…