Blitch v. Buchanan

A rehearing was granted in this case upon petition by Buchanan. The petitioner contends that as he was serving a life sentence on conviction for murder when he was convicted on October 8, 1927, for the murder of Mobray on December 9, 1926, and sentenced to death the latter sentence was void because having been convicted of a felony 'when he was put upon trial for the murder of Mobray he should have been dealt with in the second prosecution as a second offender as required by the provisions of Section 7108, Comp. Gen. Laws, 1927, which, according to the petitioner, authorizes 'imprisonment for…