State v. Burdette

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, 1949, in the said County of Kanawha, feloniously, wilfully, maliciously, deliberately, premeditatedly and unlawfully did slay, kill and murder one Edward C. O’Brien against the peace and dignity of the State.” On the 6th day of December, 1949, Burdette, then represented by counsel, entered a plea of not guilty and, each of the…