State v. Price and Bruce

Kenna, Judge :

The defendants, William Price and Bill Bruce, were in-dieted in the intermediate court of Kanawha County for murder. They were convicted of first degree murder with a finding by the jury that their punishment should be fixed at imprisonment for life. They were so sentenced, and the circuit court of Kanawha County refused a writ of error to the judgment of the intermediate court of Kanawha County. To the judgment of the circuit court, this writ of error was granted.

The indictment was for the murder of May Stone, who lived with her husband, Dryden Stone, at Hernshaw in Kan-awha…