State v. Hill
West Virginia Supreme Court
Error to Circuit Court, Cabell County. John, alias “Digger,” Hill pleaded guilty as principal to murder in tbe first degree, and sentence was deferred, and, from the overruling of his motion for leave to withdraw or set aside his plea of guilty and to plead not guilty, he brings error.
1Opinion of the Court
Miller, Judge:
The several assignments of error substantially present but two questions: First, whether the trial court rightfully received the prisoner’s plea of guilty of murder in the first degree; Second, whether the court erred in denying defendant’s motion for leave to withdraw his plea of guilty and to plead not guilty, and pronouncing the judgment of death against him.
Defendant was indicted as principal in the first degree along with George Martin, alias Red Martin, and Emory Harmon, as accessories before the fact for the murder of 'George Church on September 23, 1916. The indictment,…
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