State v. Price

Maxwell, Peesident :

Under an indictment charging him and Roy James and two others with the murder of Mary Stone in Kanawha County in the month of September, 1931, defendant, William Price, was convicted of murder in the first degree and sentenced to life imprisonment. Mary Stone died as the result of burns received by her when the dwelling of herself and husband, Dryden Stone, was destroyed by fire in the night of September 28, 1931. Roy James confessed to participating in setting fire to the house. He implicated William Price.

At the trial, Price was a witness in his own behalf. In…