State v. Wilson

Beowning, President:

The defendant, William Dallas Wilson, sixteen years of age, was convicted of murder in the first degree in the Court of Common Pleas of Cabell County, and sentenced to life imprisonment, and an application for a writ of error and supersedeas was refused by the Circuit Court of Cabell County on August 31, 1959. This Court granted a writ of error and supersedeas on November 16, 1959. Errors assigned in this Court concern the giving of State’s Instruction No. 1, which set forth the statutory definition of murder in the first degree, and No. 2, which instructed the jury that…