State v. Young

McHugh, Justice:

This case is before this Court upon the petition of John Lewis Young for a writ of error and supersedeas from an order of the Circuit Court of Cabell County, West Virginia, entered upon a jury verdict, adjudging Young (hereinafter defendant) guilty of the offense of burglary. Consequently, this Court has before it the petition for a writ of error, all matters of record, including a transcript of the defendant’s trial, and the memoranda of law filed by counsel.

By separate indictments returned by a Mason County, West Virginia, grand jury during the January, 1977, term of Court,…