State v. Sullivan

BranNon, Judge:

Wayne Sullivan was sentenced to the penitentiary for two *598years by the circuit court of Mingo county upon an indictment for maliciously shooting John White. One complaint of Sullivan against the conviction is that the State gave in evidence a warrant issued by a justice for the arrest of Sullivan upon a charge of adultery, which the justice had committed to the hands of White to be executed: The warrant was sworn out by White. The charge being one of malicious shooting, this warrant was competent to show grudge and malice on the part of Sullivan. The fact that White made the…