State v. Burdette

63 S.E.2d 69 (1950)

STATE

v.

BURDETTE.

No. 10274.

Supreme Court of Appeals of West Virginia.

Submitted September 12, 1950.

Decided December 12, 1950.

Rehearing Denied February 12, 1951.

D. L. Salisbury, D. Boone Dawson, Charleston, plaintiff in error.

William C. Marland, Atty. Gen., George W. Stokes, Asst. Atty. Gen., defendant in error.

GIVEN, Judge.

At the September, 1949, term of the Intermediate Court of Kanawha County, an indictment for murder was returned by the grand jury against Harry Atlee Burdette and Fred Clifford Painter. The indictment charged that the defendants "on the ___ day of July,…