State v. Stevenson

As the record indicates clearly that the defendant Ernest Stevenson, an indigent Negro youth twenty two years of age, who was represented by court appointed attorneys, did not have a fair trial and that his conviction upon the evidence by the jury that heard and evaluated it does not satisfy the requirements of due process, I can not concur in the decision of the majority of this Court which by a three to two vote affirms the judgment of the Circuit Court and the judgment of the Common Pleas Court of Cabell County which upholds his conviction of murder of the first degree and sentences him to…