Legal Opinion

State v. Powers

West Virginia Supreme Court

Decided September 26, 1922PublishedCited by 47 opinions

1Opinion of the Court

Lively, Judge:

Defendant, James Powers, prosecutes this writ of error from a judgment of the circuit court pronounced on tRe 3d day of December, 1921, sentencing Rim to confinement in tRe penitentiary for five years for tRe crime of grand' larceny. TRe indictment cRarges Rim and three -other persons^ Young,-Bertone, and Hall, with feloniously stealing and carrying away .a Ford touring car, tRe property of J: A. Barr and C. A. Dowler.

TRe defendants, wRo were strangers-in-tRe town of West Union, were first seen there together about dark 'on the evening of April 22, 1921. A girl, 15 years of age,…

2Cases cited14 opinions

  1. State v. GreerWest Virginia Supreme Court · 1883
  2. State v. SheppardWest Virginia Supreme Court · 1901
  3. State v. McCauslandWest Virginia Supreme Court · 1918
  4. Deitz v. Prov. Wash. Ins.West Virginia Supreme Court · 1890
  5. State v. RobertsWest Virginia Supreme Court · 1901

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3Cited by47 opinions

  1. State v. StarrWest Virginia Supreme Court · 1975
  2. State v. HamricWest Virginia Supreme Court · 1966
  3. State v. PetryWest Virginia Supreme Court · 1980
  4. State v. WooldridgeWest Virginia Supreme Court · 1946
  5. State v. StoneWest Virginia Supreme Court · 1980

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