State v. Bonham

This is an appeal by James Bonham from an order of the Circuit Court of Cabell County sentencing him to two consecutive terms of from one to five years in the State penitentiary for conspiring to commit malicious wounding and for voluntary manslaughter. On appeal Mr. Bonham claims that the trial court erred in allowing the indictment against him to stand in view of the fact that the chief investigating officer gave false and prejudiced testimony to the grand jury. He also claims that the trial court erred in allowing the prosecution to introduce evidence of completely unrelated crimes…