State v. Holmes

Riley, Judge:

In the Intermediate Court of Kanawha County, Arthur H. Holmes was indicted and tried for the murder of one Ray Munson, a police officer of the city of Charleston, and found guilty of murder in the second degree. He prosecutes this writ of error to an order of the circuit court, refusing a writ of error to the' judgment of the intermediate court entered upon the jury verdict.

Defendant was a duly qualified constable of Kanawha County. Upon two or three occasions he had assisted the sheriff’s office in raiding the premises on West Washington Street where one Jack Kearns notoriously…