State v. Newman

Brannon, President:

William Newman was convicted in the’ criminal court of Kanawha County of the unlawful shooting of Jack Shea, and was sentenced to the penitentiary for three years. He applied to the circuit court of Kanawha County for a writ of error, but it was refused, and then he brought this writ of. error in this Court.

The first point which his assignments of errors makes against the judgment is that the court refused to give bim a new trial on the ground that the verdict was contrary to the evidence. I shall only say, because it is only necessary to say, that as the question before…