State v. Burnette

Maxwell, Judge:

The defendant, William Burnette, convicted in the intermediate court of Kanawha County of the unlawful, but not malicious, wounding of Ralph Wills and sentenced to penitentiary confinement of two years, prosecutes this writ of error to a judgment of the circuit court of said county, affirming the action of the trial court.

In February, 1936, the defendant, acting in his capacity of chief of police of the town of Cedar Grove in said county, shot and seriously wounded in the right arm Ralph Wills, age 20, who at the moment was fleeing from the officer in order to avoid arrest by…