McDaniel v. Commonwealth

Plaintiff in error, Raymond (Buster) McDaniel, on the 7th day of February, 1944, in the nighttime shot and killed Roy A. Alfred. He was indicted on March 13, 1944, for murder. There was a jury trial, which returned this verdict:

“We, the jury find the defendant guilty of murder in the first degree, as charged in this indictment, and fix his punishment at death.”

It was approved by the trial court, which imposed the punishment fixed by the jury.

The accused is about thirty years old and is uneducated. He is the father of six children, one of whom is deficient. About six months before the…