State v. Peterson

Riley, President:

The defendant, Bud Peterson, charged with the murder of Bessie Wright on June 29, 1947, was convicted in the Circuit Court of Logan County of murder of the first degree without recommendation, and sentenced to be hanged. To this judgment of sentence, he prosecutes this writ of error.

Defendant came to the State of West Virginia from the State of Alabama in 1920. From 1925 until the time of his arrest for the alleged homicide, he had been continuously employed as a coal miner in Logan County, and when arrested he was living in the town of Riley, in Logan County, located…