State v. Anderson

Woods, Judge:

Boyd Anderson, who was arraigned on the charge of having murdered his brother-in-law, William Duncan, complains of a judgment of the circuit court of Webster County, entered on a verdict of voluntary manslaughter, sentencing him to confinement in the penitentiary for a period of five years.

The altercation, in which Duncan was fatally wounded, occurred at the home of Bud Anderson, on Sunday, July 8, 1934, about 8:30 P. M. Bud Anderson and wife had gone to Buckhannon that day and had not yet returned. The defendant, age thirty-one, the oldest child, and half-brother to the rest of…