State v. Trail

McGraw, Justice:

On the morning of December 31, 1972, Gordie S. Mul-lens, a gasoline service station attendant at Daniels, West Virginia, was shot to death.

Over a year later, on January 17, 1974, the defendant, while an inmate at Leckie Correctional Center for runaway, theft, truancy and tampering with an automobile, was arrested for that homicide. The next day he was brought before a justice of the peace in Raleigh County who determined that the defendant was then 17 years of age and transferred the proceedings to the Juvenile Court of Raleigh County. The juvenile court refused to assert…