State v. Paul Roush

Lively, Judge:

The verdict is murder in the second degree on which a sentence of ten years imprisonment is based; to this judgment and sentence defendant prosecutes this writ.

The) case has some remarkable aspects, and it is difficult to conjecture why the verdict was murder in the second degree. The indictment is against defendant Paul Roush, Howard Crummit, James Betts and Arthur Vannort, and charges them with combining and conspiring together for the purpose of inflicting bodily injury upon Wheeler Sanders, the deceased, and that in pursuance of the conspiracy they did, on the- day of May,…