STATE v. LOVELESS

Case No. 10702.

87 S.E.2d 273 (1955)

STATE of West Virginia. v. Melvin LOVELESS.

Supreme Court of Appeals of West Virginia.

Decided May 24, 1955.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

D. J. Savage, Charleston, Harry J. Capehart, Welch, for plaintiff in error.

John G. Fox, Atty. Gen., Robert E. Magnuson, Asst. Atty. Gen., for defendant in error.


LOVINS, President.

Melvin Loveless was convicted by a jury in the Circuit Court of Logan County, West Virginia, at the May term, 1954, of that Court, of being an accessory before the fact to the crime of murder in the first degree. The trial court, after overruling a motion to set aside the verdict, sentenced the defendant to be executed.

Defendant was indicted at the May term, 1953, in the Circuit Court of Logan...

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