Legal Opinion
State v. Howerton
West Virginia Supreme Court
Decided April 18, 1985No. 16129PublishedCited by 16 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
MILLER, Justice:
The defendant, James Ronald Howerton, was convicted by a jury in the Circuit Court of Cabell County of committing second degree murder when he was seventeen years old. He was transferred from juvenile jurisdiction to adult criminal jurisdiction in August, 1981, upon a finding by the trial court that probable cause existed to believe he had committed a murder. W.Va.Code, 49-5-10(d)(l); see State ex rel. Cook v. Helms, 170 W.Va. 200, 292 S.E.2d 610 (1981).
Although the defendant did not exercise his right to a direct statutory appeal from the transfer order, he nonetheless…
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