On February 20, 1952, Ida Bell Harris, former wife of defendant-appellant, Cecil Young, was killed in her apartment by knife wounds, one of which severed the jugular vein. Defendant-appellant was charged with her murder.
After examination, a sanity commission was appointed. On hearing its report, a Calhoun county circuit judge found Young to be "so insane that he is incapable of understanding the nature...
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