State v. Reppert

Haymond, President:

The defendant, Roy B. Reppert, was indicted by a grand jury of Webster County at the January Term, 1948, of the circuit court for the murder of Ralph Ware in that county in September, 1947. On the petition of the accused the case was removed to Braxton County, where it was tried in March, 1948. The jury returned a verdict which found the defendant not guilty of murder of the first or second degree but guilty of voluntary manslaughter and the defendant, by the judgment of the circuit court of that county, entered March 22, 1948, was sentenced to confinement in the…