State v. Stowers
West Virginia Supreme Court
Error to Circuit Court, Lincoln. County. Henry Stowers was convicted of maliciously shooting another, and he brings error.
1Opinion of the Court
Brannon, Judge.
Henry Stowers was sentenced to the “ penitentiary for five years for the malicious shooting of a ■woman named Josie Whitten in Lincoln county. He complains of certain instructions given for the state and refusal of instructions asked by him'. We have carefully gone over these instructions and find no error in respect to them. It cannot be necessary to cum*199ber the reports by inserting and considering these sixteen instructions, as they do not involve any legal principles not old and settled.
Another complaint, one scarcely deserving mention. It is that the prosecuting attorney in…
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