BRAFFITH
v.
PEOPLE OF VIRGIN ISLANDS
BRAFFITH
PEOPLE OF VIRGIN ISLANDS
29 F.2d 740
United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit (1928)
Opinion of the Court
This appeal under the laws of the Virgin Islands is compulsory. *741Braffith v. People of Virgin Islands (C. C. A.) 26 F.(2d) 646. In view of the prisoner’s plea 'of guilty entered to a charge of murder in the first degree, our inquiry on this appeal has been directed, and limited, to a search for fundamental irregularities in the proceeding and to a possible abuse by the court of its discretion in determining the punishment. Braffith v. People of Virgin Islands, supra. On our review of the record, made with a care which the gravity of the case required, we found no errors of either kind.
The judgment must therefore be affirmed.