JENKINS v. STATE


230 A.2d 262 (1967)

Thornton A. JENKINS, Defendant Below, Appellant, v. The STATE of Delaware, Plaintiff Below, Appellee. Clifford WARNER, Defendant Below, Appellant, v. The STATE of Delaware, Plaintiff Below, Appellee.

Supreme Court of Delaware.

March 27, 1967.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Henry N. Herndon, Jr., of Morris, James, Hitchens & Williams, Wilmington, for Thornton A. Jenkins, defendant below, appellant.

Richard J. Baker, Wilmington, for Clifford Warner, defendant below, appellant.

F. L. Peter Stone and Jay H. Conner, Deputy Attys. Gen., for the plaintiff below, appellee.

WOLCOTT, C. J., and CAREY and HERRMANN, JJ., sitting.


HERRMANN, Justice:

Thornton A. Jenkins was convicted of murder in the first degree and burglary in the fourth degree. Clifford Warner was convicted of murder in the second degree and burglary in the fourth degree. They were tried together and they appeal jointly.

Jenkins and Warner were arrested on the morning of March 17, 1965. Earlier, the police discovered the victim of an apparent homicide in a junkyard in Wilmington...

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