Legal Opinion

State v. Banks

West Virginia Supreme Court

Decided November 27, 1906Published

Error to Circuit Court, Lincoln County. Levi Banks was convicted of unlawful shooting and brings, error.

1Opinion of the Court

McWhORTER, PRESIDENT:

This is a prosecution against Levi Banks upon an- indictment found in the circuit court of Logan county at the July term. 1903, for unlawfully, maliciously and feloniously shooting one Jonah Perguson. The case was tried at the November term of Logan court, 1903, when the jury returned a verdict of not guilty of malicious shooting and wounding, but' guilty of unlawful shooting, and Banks was sentenced to the penitentiary for three years. The case was brought here on writ of error and the judgment reversed and the case remanded for a new trial. — See 55 W. Va. 388.

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