State v. Young

DeNt, Judge:

Lewis Young at the April term, 1900, of the circuit court of McDowell County, ivas sentenced to be hanged on the 30th day of August, 1900, for the murder of Anthony Kell, of which he stood convicted. He obtained a writ of error to this Court, and now here insists that the judgment be reversed, the verdict of the jury be set aside, and he granted a new trial; First, because of the admission of improper testimony, and, Second, because the verdict is contrary to’the law and evidence, and without evidence to support it.

He objects to the evidence of Lum Whitlock relating to a…