Ex parte McNeeley
West Virginia Supreme Court
cited 3 Wheat. 374; 12 Pet. 657; 67 Am. Dec. 413; 86 Am. Dec. 252; 2 Am. & Eng. Ency. Law 504; 1 G-ratt. 655; 22 W. Va. 800; 21 W. Va. 781. cited Code (1860) c. 1, s, 6; Const. Art. II, s. 1; Code (1891) c. 1, s. 2; Id. c. 144, s. 6; Id. c. 152, ss. 11, 13; Acts 1839-40, ■ c. 59, s. 2; Acts 1847-8, p. 96, ss. 7, 8; Id. p. 122, s. 6; Mat. Or. Dig. 113, 114; Acts 1882, c. 118; Const.
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cited 3 Wheat. 374; 12 Pet. 657; 67 Am. Dec. 413; 86 Am. Dec. 252; 2 Am. & Eng. Ency. Law 504; 1 G-ratt. 655; 22 W. Va. 800; 21 W. Va. 781. cited Code (1860) c. 1, s, 6; Const. Art. II, s. 1; Code (1891) c. 1, s. 2; Id. c. 144, s. 6; Id. c. 152, ss. 11, 13; Acts 1839-40, ■ c. 59, s. 2; Acts 1847-8, p. 96, ss. 7, 8; Id. p. 122, s. 6; Mat. Or. Dig. 113, 114; Acts 1882, c. 118; Const. Art. Ill, s. 14; 138 U. S. 157, 181; 1 Bail. 283; 7 Vt. 118; 21 la. 467; 119 U. S. 437; 5 How. 410; 7 Pet. 243; 2 Ilawk. P. C. §§ 36, 37; Lev. Stat. IT. S. §§ 5339, 731, 732; 1 Kuss. Or. 432, 433; 2 Va. Cas. 205; 2…
1Opinion of the Court
BRANNON, J :
Stuart McNeeley filed his petition in July, 1891, in the Circuit Court of Logan County, praying for a writ of habeas corpas to discharge him from the jail of that county, and upon demurrer the court refused to award the writ, and dismissed the petition, from which action of the court he has obtained this writ of error.
The petition states that in 1891 Frank Hurley died from gunshot wounds inflicted by McNeeley while both were in the State of Kentucky, standing between high and low water marks, about ton feet above the water’s edge, on the Kentucky side of the Tug Fork of Big Sandy…
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