State v. Woods

Berry, Judge:

The defendant, Morris Woods, was indicted with William Feazell and Charles Flint as accessories before the fact to a felony by the grand jury of Nicholas County, West Virginia. Three principals, James Keener, James Petry and John Thomas, pleaded guilty to a charge of grand larceny of a walnut log valued at $600. The defendant, in a separate trial, was found guilty by a jury of being an accessory before the fact to petit larceny and was sentenced to one year in the county jail. A writ of error and supersedeas to the judgment of the Circuit Court of Nicholas County of October 2,…