State v. Burke

Haymond, Judge:

The defendant, Dennis J. Burke, was convicted upon the trial of an indictment for a misdemeanor in the Criminal Court of Harrison County, and sentenced to be confined in the county jail for a period of one year and to pay a fine of $200.00. The circuit court of that county having refused the petition of the defendant to review that judgment, he prosecutes this writ of error in this Court.

This proceeding grows out of the same transactions which gave rise to the indictment and the trial of the defendant in the case of State of West Virginia v. Tracy Taylor, 130 W. Va. 74, 42 S.…