State v. Beatty
West Virginia Supreme Court
Error to Circuit Court, Preston County. J. Wesley Beatty was convicted of murder in tlie first degree, and brings error.
1Opinion of the Court
POEEENBARGER, JuDGE:
J. Wesley Beatly was convicted of murder in the first degree without recommendation of imprisonment, in the circuit court of Preston County on the 20th day of December, 1900. A motion in arrest of judgment and to set aside the verdict and grant a new trial was overruled and sentence of death was pronounced against the prisoner, lie has brought the case here on a writ of error, claiming that the court erred in overruling a motion to quash the indictment and in overruling the motion to set aside the verdict, that the record does not show any plea-entered, that there was no…
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