State v. Files

Riley, Judge:

Norman Files was sentenced to ten years imprisonment in the state penitentiary by the Circuit Court of Berkeley County by an order based upon a verdict of guilty of malicious wounding of one Alston Hutsler. This writ of error is prosecuted to that judgment.

The accused, at the time of the occurrence described in the testimony herein, lived in Berkeley County west of Glengary near the Virginia line. One Mrs. Shade, his housekeeper, and his seventeen-year old son lived with him. Files was employed on a housing project and Mrs. Shade at the Dunn Woolen Mills, both in Martinsburg. It…