State v. Young

*527The opinion of the court was delivered by

Mason, J.:

Delbert Young was prosecuted for the killing of his brother, Claude Young. He was convicted of murder in the second degree, and appeals.

The circumstances of the homicide, as related by the defendant, his testimony being largely corroborated by that of his wife and Alice Swabby, a niece of the brothers, were substantially. as follows:

For four years thé defendant and the deceased, Claude Young, had had some trouble which was more or less connected with the possession of a quarter section of land belonging to the niece referred to and controlled…