State v. Worley

Williams, Judge:

Flynn Worley was convicted of first degree murder in the criminal court of Raleigh county and, on recommendation of the jury, was sentenced to confinement in the penitentiary for life. On writ of error to the circuit court the judgment was affirmed, and he now prosecutes this writ of error to that judgment.

James Griffith was lulled about 1:30 o'clock P. M. on the 22nd of June, 1916, in Flynn Worley’s house, not far from the town of Beckley, by a shot fired from a pistol belonging to defendant. The ball entered near the corner of his right eye and passed through his head at the…