State v. McCauley

Lovins, Judge:

Mark Roy McCauley was indicted, tried and convicted in the Circuit Court of Mineral County for the murder of Joseph Horne, a sergeant in the Department of Public Safety of the State of West Virginia.' To a judgment sentencing him to be executed, he prosecutes this writ of error.

The theft of a motor truck, owned by Dodd & Archer and worth approximately sixty-five hundred dollars, was reported to deceased for his official action. On September 9, 1946, having been informed that defendant had taken the truck to the vicinity of Emoryville, Sergeant Horne, accompanied by the Sheriff…