State of West Virginia v. Webb Holesapple

Woods, Judge:

Webb Holesapple upon arraignment before tbe intermediate court of Kanawha county on a charge of the larceny of two diamond bracelets of the value of $14,000, tendered and filed a special plea, in which he set up a former acquittal in the circuit court of Greenbrier county of the alleged offense, as evidenced by a certified copy of the latter court’s final order, incorporated in said plea. A demurrer to the special plea was overruled. Thereupon the State, according to the order of the intermediate court, filed its replication to said plea and said court ‘ ‘ after hearing argument…