State v. Walker

Lively, Judge :

Charley Walker was convicted of murder in the second degree in the intermediate court of Kanawha County, on February 16, 1921, and sentenced to confinement in the penitentiary for eighteen years. He petitioned the circuit court for a writ of error, which was refused, and he prosecutes this writ.

Defendant is a negro, and was indicted, tried and convicted for the murder of Flem Anderson, who was a negro policeman of the city. The accused relied upon self defense. At the time of the homicide defendant was operating a fruit store or soft drink stand on Court street, and in the…