State v. Stover
West Virginia Supreme Court
Appeal from Circuit Court, Raleigh County. Lantie Stover was convicted of murder in the second decree, and brings error.
1Opinion of the Court
BraNnon, Judge:
Lantie Stover was indicted for the murder of John Lewis in Raleigh county and two trials by a jury resulted in a ver-dict of guilty of murder in the second degree. From the last sentence in the criminal court of Raleigh county Stover "took a writ of error to the circuit court, and the latter court Raving affirmed the sentence, Stover comes here by a writ of error.
It is useless to detail evidence. As I have several times written it is not the office of an opinion in this Court, except in rare cases, to detail evidence, but to pass on legal *669questions. In this case it is enough to…
2Cases cited4 opinions
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