State v. Taylor
West Virginia Supreme Court
Error to Circuit Court, Upshur County. Okey Taylor was convicted of murder and brings error.
1Opinion of the Court
POEEENBARGER, JUDGE:
Okey Taylor, convicted of murder, in the circuit court of Upshur county, and sentenced to imprisonment in the penitentiary for a period of fifteen years, complains of the judgment, assigning numerous errors.
One is based upon the action of the court in rejecting a plea in abatement, setting up irregularity in the organization of the grand jury which found the indictment against him. Before this plea was tendered, the indictment had been found in Gilmer county on the 2nd das'- of October, 1903. On thefol-lowing day, the prisoner had entered his plea of not guilty. On the…
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