State v. Angel

Beery, Judge:

This is an appeal by the defendant, Lennis Angel, from a judgment of February 18, 1969, of the Circuit Court of Kana-wha County, West Virginia, affirming a judgment of the Intermediate Court of Kanawha County entered July 24, 1968, on a jury verdict which had found the defendant guilty of murder in the first degree without recommendation for mercy.

The defendant was indicted at the January, 1967, term of the Intermediate Court of Kanawha County for the murder of Frances Voiles, a twelve-year-old girl who had been a baby-sitter for the two children of the defendant at his residence…