State v. Stevenson
West Virginia Supreme Court
Error to Circuit Court, Mercer County. Frank Stevenson was indicted for murder in the first degree. He entered a plea of not guilty, which was thereafter withdrawn on his motion and a plea of guilty entered.
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Error to Circuit Court, Mercer County. Frank Stevenson was indicted for murder in the first degree. He entered a plea of not guilty, which was thereafter withdrawn on his motion and a plea of guilty entered. Subsequently, and before any judgment was pronounced by the special judge who had received the plea, the regular judge appeared and assumed the bench, and proceeded in defendant’s absence to hear statements of the special judge as to what tlie witnesses had testified at- the time of entering the plea of guilty, and also to hear the sworn statements of a part of the witnesses summoned.…
1Opinion of the Court
Miller, Judge:
The indictment in the criminal court, returned January 8, 190T, for murder and manslaughter, Avas in the form prescribed by section 4200, Code 1906, and charged that the defendant, on September 21, 1906, “in the said county of Mercer, feloniously, wilfully, maliciously, deliberately and unlawfully did slay, kill and murder one Mose Blagman, against the peace and dignity of the State.” January 12, 1907, the prisoner demurred to the indictment, which being-overruled, in his own proper person he entered his plea of not guilty and issue was joined thereon. January 26, 1907, *394the case…
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