State v. Clifford
West Virginia Supreme Court
Error to Circuit Court, Berkeley County. Paul Clifford was convicted of murder, and brings error.
1Opinion of the Court
POEFBNBARGER, JUDGE:
Paul Clifford, under sentence, by the circuit court of Berkeley county, of imprisonment for the period of ten years, upon conviction of the murder, of Jacob Turner, has brought his case here on a writ of error.
The deceased came to his death by a shot from a pistol in the hands of the accused, but the circumstances of the killing were peculiar and unusual in some respects. Clifford was set upon and beaten in the night time by Charles and Joseph Cook, by way of punishment for an alleged insult to Jennie Cook, the wife of Joseph Cook, in the afternoon of the same day. No…
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