Young v. State

The appellant was convicted of the murder of Cyril Turner, in the circuit court of Washington county, and was sentenced to be hanged, from which conviction and sentence he prosecutes this appeal.

The facts of the case are as follows: The appellant, several days prior to the killing of the deceased, caused the deceased to be arrested on a charge of burning some of his clothes, and. upon investigation of the case the deceased was discharged by the city authorities. Thereafter the deceased was continually joking the appellant about having, been turned loose and about the officers having caught…