Patterson v. Commonwealth

At the September term of the Circuit Court of Rock-bridge county, 1911, plaintiff in error was indicted for the murder of S. H. Campbell on June 30, 1911, and at that term of the court he was put upon trial, but the jury failed to agree upon a verdict. The case was again tried at the November term of the court, 1911, when the jury found a verdict of guiity of murder in the second degree and fixed the accused’s punishment at six years in the penitentiary, which verdict the court refused to set aside.

The assignments of error in the petition, upon which this writ of error was awarded the…