Case ID: tex-crim_47/html/0530-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "BROOKS, Judge.", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

John Henry Young v. The State.
    No. 3138.
    Decided January 25, 1905.
    Murder in the First Degree—Death Penalty.
    See opinion for evidence held sufficient to sustain a conviction p£ murder in the first degree assessing the death penalty.
    Appeal from the District Court of Ellis. Tried below before Hon. J. E. Dillard.
    Appeal from a conviction of murder in the first degree; penalty, death.
    The opinion states the case.
    Ho brief for appellant.
    
      Howard Martin, Assistant Attorney-General, for the State.
   BROOKS, Judge.

Appellant was convicted of murder in the first degree, and his punishment assessed at death. After being properly and duly warned by the court, as provided by the terms of the statute, appellant persisted in pleading guilty, to the charge against him, which plea was properly received and entered by the court. Thereupon the State introduced sufficient evidence to show express malice. The court submitted both degrees of murder: the jury assessed appellant’s punishment at death, finding Mm guilty of murder in the first degree. The only assignment of error is the alleged insufficiency of the evidence. The evidence shows that appellant having manifested expressed antecedent malice against deceased, followed him down to the creek in which he and his wife were fishing, and without any cause, shot'him to death, and threw his body into the creek. There is no mitigation of the heinous crime committed: but on the contrary the evidence shows appellant deserves the punishment awarded by the jury. The judgment is accordingly affirmed.

Affirmed.

Davidson, Presiding Judge, absent.