Durham v. Commonwealth

Luther Durham, Jr., 1 defendant, was tried by a jury for the murder of Mrs. Annie Snow, convicted of murder of the first degree, and was sentenced to life imprisonment. We denied his petition for a writ of error to the judgment. After defendant’s successful habeas corpus proceeding in the United States District Court for the Western District of Virginia, he was again tried for the offense in the court below, found guilty by a jury of murder of the first degree, and his punishment was fixed at life imprisonment. He was sentenced accordingly, and he is here on a writ of error to that judgment.

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