State v. Stafford
West Virginia Supreme Court
Error to Circuit Court, Raleigh County. Tony Stafford was convicted of attempting’ to kill by'shooting, and lie brings error.
1Opinion of the Court
Lively Judge:
Defendant prosecutes this writ of error from a judgment of the criminal court entered on the 6th day of April, 1920, sentencing him to confinement in the penitentiary for five years.
*304At the March term in 1919, defendant, George Lucas, Tom McGinnis, Dorr Snuffer, Tom Murphy, Ed. Hornick, Will Owens, Tom Lethco, Toney Sorazzo and Carl Crim were jointly indicted for a felony, the indictment charging them with unlawfully and feloniously attempting to maliciously, deliberately and unlawfully kill John Hansom and others by shooting at them with guns on the 16th day of Novémber, 1917.…
2Cases cited15 opinions
- Gibson v. StateSupreme Court of Alabama · 1889
- State ex rel. Attorney General v. TallySupreme Court of Alabama · 1893
- People v. StrongCalifornia Supreme Court · 1866
- State v. AllenWest Virginia Supreme Court · 1898
- Burton & Conquest v. CommonwealthSupreme Court of Virginia · 1908
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3Cited by14 opinions
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- State v. WestWest Virginia Supreme Court · 1969
- Robert E. Askins v. United StatesCourt of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit · 1958
- State v. BailWest Virginia Supreme Court · 1955
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