STATE v. DEAN

No. 10167.

58 S.E.2d 860 (1950)

STATE v. DEAN.

Supreme Court of Appeals of West Virginia.

Decided April 4, 1950.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

W. F. Damron, Logan, O. D. Damron, Logan, for plaintiff in error.

William C. Marland, Atty. Gen., Thomas J. Gillooly, Asst. Atty. Gen., for defendant in error


RILEY, Judge.

Matilene Dean was indicted in and tried before the Circuit Court of Logan County, and convicted of murder of the first degree without recommendation. To the judgment of the circuit court based upon a jury verdict, sentencing her to be hanged at the state penitentiary at Moundsville, defendant prosecutes this writ of error.

The defendant, a Negro woman twenty-three years of age, and a native of Logan...

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