State v. Compton
West Virginia Supreme Court
"Writ of error to a judgment of the circuit court- of Ritchie county, rendered on the 26th day of October, 1877, upon the verdict of a jury finding B. S. Compton guilty of an offense, of which he stood indicted in said court. Hon. James Monroe Jackson, judge of the fifth judicial circuit, presided at the trial beloiv. The facts of the case are sufficiently stated in the opinion of the Court. cited the following authorities: 7 Cow. 166; Id. 535; 1 Murph. (N. C.) 213; Arelib.
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"Writ of error to a judgment of the circuit court- of Ritchie county, rendered on the 26th day of October, 1877, upon the verdict of a jury finding B. S. Compton guilty of an offense, of which he stood indicted in said court. Hon. James Monroe Jackson, judge of the fifth judicial circuit, presided at the trial beloiv. The facts of the case are sufficiently stated in the opinion of the Court. cited the following authorities: 7 Cow. 166; Id. 535; 1 Murph. (N. C.) 213; Arelib. Crim. Prac. (8th ed.) 320; 2 Va. Ca. 547;6Gratt. 665. cited 6 Gratt. 665; 9 W. Va. 715.
1Opinion of the CourtHayMOND, Judge
On the 26th day of October, 1876, the grand jury, in and for the body of the county of Ritchie, in attendance upon the circuit court of said county, then in session, upon their oaths found an indictment; and the entry on the record of the finding of the indictment is as follows, viz : “ An indictment against B. S. Compton for trespass. *854A true bill.” Tbe indictment appearing in the record, "and certified by the clerk as being the indictment found in the cause, is against Benjamin S. Compton, J. C. Gil-man, G. SI utter, John O’Brien, Patsey Ames, Martin Ames, Martin King, Thomas Faulkner, John…
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