Tilton v. Commonwealth

This writ of error brings to us for review a final judgment of the court below by which Lanvee Irby Tilton, aged seventeen, and Grover Willie Newman, aged twenty-three, were sentenced to death by electrocution after each had pleaded guilty to an indictment for murder. The determination of the questions presented requires a full statement of the proceedings below, as well as the undisputed underlying facts.

On the afternoon of February 10, 1954, T. Eldridge Bunn was found shot to death in his store near Hillsville in Carroll county.. Suspicion was directed toward Tilton' and Newman and they…