State v. Douglass
West Virginia Supreme Court
J. W. Arbuckle cited Minor, Crimes & Punishments, 253; 2 Gratt. 629; 3 Gratt. 690; 5 Gratt. 664; 14 Gratt. 675; 18 Gratt. 785; 18 Gratt. 915; 19 Gratt. 807; 20 Gratt. 825; 25 Gratt. 974; 15 Gratt. 664; 77 Va. 53; 22 Am. Dec. 767; 10 Ann & Eng. Enc. Law, 544, note, 566-67, notes; 45 Ind. 338; 44 Tex. 473; 1 Tex. 417; 10 Mich. 212; Code, c. 144, s. 1; 4 Leigh, 669; 22 W. Va. 800; 1 Burr’s Trial, 416; 4 Wend. 232; 9 Pick. 99; 2 Va. Cas. 375; 24 W. Va. 782; Const.
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J. W. Arbuckle cited Minor, Crimes & Punishments, 253; 2 Gratt. 629; 3 Gratt. 690; 5 Gratt. 664; 14 Gratt. 675; 18 Gratt. 785; 18 Gratt. 915; 19 Gratt. 807; 20 Gratt. 825; 25 Gratt. 974; 15 Gratt. 664; 77 Va. 53; 22 Am. Dec. 767; 10 Ann & Eng. Enc. Law, 544, note, 566-67, notes; 45 Ind. 338; 44 Tex. 473; 1 Tex. 417; 10 Mich. 212; Code, c. 144, s. 1; 4 Leigh, 669; 22 W. Va. 800; 1 Burr’s Trial, 416; 4 Wend. 232; 9 Pick. 99; 2 Va. Cas. 375; 24 W. Va. 782; Const. Art. Ill, s. 5. cited 26 W. Va. 116; 24 W. Va. 767, 814; 22 W. Va. 800; 33 W. Va. 319; 28 W. Va. 297; Code, c. 144, s. 1.
1Opinion of the Court
Brannon, Judge:
This is a writ of error brought by Kenos Douglass to reverse a sentence of imprisonment for life in the penitentiary imposed upon him by the Circuit Court of the county of Greenbrier for the murder of Thomas Reed on Christmas night, 1893.
Counsel for the prisoner asks us to hold bad the indictment, which is in the form allowed by section 1 of chapter *538144 of the Code, the particular defect suggested being the omission to charge the homicide as having been done with premeditation, as one of the essential elements of murder in the first degree. As was said in Baker’s Case, 33…
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