State v. Waldron

MilleR, Judge:

On an indictment for the murder of Ben Tate defendant was acquitted of murder in the first degree, but found guilty of murder in the second degree, and the judgment below was that he be confined in the penitentiary for the period of ten years.

The homicide, admitted, occurred on the night of January — , 1910, a Sunday night, in a brothel in Keystone, McDowell County. Defendant was a deputy United States Marshal, who at the request of White, town sergeant, had gone with him to this house to make an arrest for alleged illicit sales of intoxicating liquors. While waiting the return…