State v. Driver
West Virginia Supreme Court
Error to Circuit Court, Cabell County. W. W. Driver was convicted of an attempt to commit rape. A new trial was refused, and be brings error.
1Opinion of the Court
Lively, Judge:
W. W. Driver was convicted of an attempt to commit rape and sentenced to confinement for one year in the penitentiary by the Common Pleas Court of Cabell County on June 22, 1920. The court refused to award a new trial, and defendant brings the case here for review on writ of error.
A plea in abatement to the indictment was tendered and refused, and exceptions taken. The plea averred that Jas. H. Marcum, one of the jurors who found the indictment,'was, at the time he sat on the grand jury, holding the office of President of the Berkeley Springs Board, and disqualified to act as a…
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