State v. Dobbs

Harshbarger, Justice:

In the early afternoon of Sunday, November 4, 1974, Alfred Stewart was in his office at the May Company in Fairmont, West Virginia. His wife telephoned him at about 1:00 p.m. and he exclaimed that he was being robbed, whereupon she called the police, and friends who owned a sandwich shop near the office. They found Stewart dead with a bullet wound in his chest.

On January 27, 1975 at 1:00 a.m. two Clarksburg patrolmen noticed Joseph Dobbs driving an automobile with unique markings that attracted their attention, and watched him park it and enter a hotel. An hour later they…