State v. Garner

Lovins, Judge :

Gearls R. Garner was convicted in the Circuit Court of Greenbrier County of entering an election room in violation of Code, 3-7-12, and sentenced to confinement in the county jail for a term of thirty days. He brings the case to this Court by writ of error.

The primary election, held on May 9, 1944, in precinct No. 59, Meadow Bluff District, Greenbrier County, West Virginia, was conducted in two rooms of a school building, one of which abuts on the street and the other on the alley. The room abutting on the alley is entered by means of a door in the partition between the two…