Cruikshank v. Duffield

Given, Judge:

We have in this original proceeding in prohibition questions attempted to be raised in a proceeding upon a writ of error granted by this Court, which writ was dismissed as having been improvidently awarded. The fácts are carefully and fully stated in the opinion filed in that proceeding, State v. Cruikshank, 138 W. Va. 332, 76 S. E. 2d 744. For convenience the facts may be recapitulated here.

One of petitioners, Guy Clarence Cruikshank, was proceeded against, by complaint and warrant, before a justice of the peace in Clay County, under the nonsupport statute, and was convicted by…