State v. Farley

Kenna, Judge:

In the unincorporated mining town called Carswell in McDowell County, at about six-thirty in the evening of August 31, 1941, James Adkins was shot through the heart and killed by- T. J. Farley, who was thereafter, in the Circuit Court of that county, indicted, convicted and sentenced to be hanged, and this writ of error was granted upon the petition of the accused. The eight separate assignments of error set forth in the petition, in response to the prayer of which this writ was granted, are all included in the five questions submitted and briefed and stated as follows by the…