State v. Whitt

MEREDITH, PRESIDENT :

Defendant obtained a writ of error to a judgment of the circuit court of Wyoming County wherein he was sentenced to seven years’ imprisonment upon the verdict of a jury finding him guilty of murder in the second degree.

We will make no comment upon the evidence further than is necessary to discuss the errors assigned. It appears that defendant and his son, Alva Whitt, were deputy sheriffs of the county, and lived at Bud, a station on the line of the Virginian Railway. The deceased,. John Bishop, a nephew of defendant, lived there, as did also one Dominick Chrisen-della, a…