State v. Crawford

Miller, President:

The indictment charged defendant with the murder of A. Murphy on the-day of September, 1907. The jury found him guilty of murder in the first degree, as charged, and that he be punished by confinement in the penitentiary during his life. From the judgment of imprisonment on said verdict pronounced by the intermediate court of Kanawha county, and affirmed- by the circuit court on appeal, defendant has brought error to this Court.

The original transcript of the record in the intermediate court, as certified to the circuit court, showed that the jury were “sworn to well and…