State v. Abbott
West Virginia Supreme Court
Writ of error granted on the petition of the defendant below to a judgment on the verdict of the circuit court of Kanawha county, rendered on the 13th day of December, 1873. The case is fully stated in the opinion of the Court. The Hon. Joseph Smith, judge oí said circuit court, presided at the trial below.
1Opinion of the Court
PIaYMOND, PRESIDENT :
In considering this case I will, for the sake of convenience, designate the plaintiff iti error as the defendant, he being the defendant in the court below.
The defendant, (St. Clair Abbott) was on the 3d day of November, 1873, indicted by the grand jury of the county of Kanawha, then attending the circuit court of said county, for the murder of Augustus Grass. The language of the indictment was as follows, to-wit: “That St. Clair Abbott on the 11th day of September, 1861, in the said county of Kanawha, in and upon the body of one, Augustus Grass, feloniously, wilfully and…
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