State v. Highland
West Virginia Supreme Court
Error to Circuit Court, Randolph County. Homer Highland was convicted of voluntary manslaughter, and brings error.
1Opinion of the Court
BRANNON, PRESIDENT.
Homer Highland was convicted of voluntary manslaughter upon an indictment in the circuit court „of Randolph county charging him with the murder of James E. Herron. He was upon a first trial found by a jury guilty of murder in the first degree with recommendation that he be punished by confinement in the penitentiary. A new trial was granted him. When the case was called for a second trial'he moved the'court for an .autopsy of Herron’s body, and asked that the court order the body to be disinterred that such autopsy might be had; but the court refused to make such order.
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