Whitfield v. Commonwealth

Opinion op the Court by

Sims, Commissioner

Affirming.

The appellant, David Whitfield, was indicted jointly with Sidney Diehm and Edward Garrison for the crime of wilful murder by setting fire to a house and burning to death a child, Mary Lou Rardin. On a plea of guilty Diehm’s punishment was fixed at life imprisonment in the penitentiary. Whitfield and Garrison were tided separately, were convicted and the punishment of each was fixed at life imprisonment in the penitentiary. From that conviction Whitfield prosecuted an appeal and the judgment was reversed. As the facts appear in the opinion on…