State v. Hamrick

Woods, Judge:

Lemon Hamrick, who was sentenced to life imprisonment for tbe murder of Claude Hamilton, a deputy sheriff of Nicholas County, brings error.

It appears that the sheriff’s office was in possession of information that Hamrick had been selling moonshine liquor, and that he had made a sale to one Rader, on Wednesday morning, October 21, 1931. On the evening of the 21st, Claude Hamilton, together with W. B. Coleman, a member of the department of public safety, and. W. C. Smith, a representative of the state prohibition department, armed with a warrant, which called for the arrest of…