State v. Cain
West Virginia Supreme Court
"Writ of error to a judgment of the circuit court of the county of Jackson rendered on the 24th day of March, 1882, in a trial on an indictment for murder in said court then pending, wherein the State was plaintiff and J ohn W. Cain was defendant, allowed upon the petition of said Cain. lion. Robert E. Fleming, judge of the sixth judicial circuit, pronounced the judgment complained of. The facts of the case are fully stated in the opinion of the Court. 2 Graft. 611; "Whar.
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"Writ of error to a judgment of the circuit court of the county of Jackson rendered on the 24th day of March, 1882, in a trial on an indictment for murder in said court then pending, wherein the State was plaintiff and J ohn W. Cain was defendant, allowed upon the petition of said Cain. lion. Robert E. Fleming, judge of the sixth judicial circuit, pronounced the judgment complained of. The facts of the case are fully stated in the opinion of the Court. 2 Graft. 611; "Whar. Crim. Ev. (8th ed.) § 448; ‘Whar. Crim. Prac. (8th ed.) § 565; Whar. Crim. Law (5th ed.) § 702; 1 East P. C. 96; Whar. on…
1Opinion of the Court
•JOHNSON, PRESIDENT,
announced the opinion of the Court:
On the 2d day of November, 1881, John W. Cain was in the circuit court of Jackson county indicted for the murder of Henry Brown on the 26th day of October, 1881. On the 3d day of March, 1882, the prisoner having pleaded not guilty to the indictment was put upon his trial before a jury. Erom the certificate of the evidence made a part of the record it appears, that soon after dark on the 26th day of October, 1881, as the defendant and deceased and several other parties were going along the XJublic road, the prisoner shot the deceased with…
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