Legal Opinion
State v. Johnson
West Virginia Supreme Court
Decided September 7, 1901PublishedCited by 29 opinions
Error to Criminal Court, Ohio County. Clarence Johnson and. Hugh Devinney were convicted of murder in a criminal court. From a judgment of the circuit court affirming the same., they bring error.
1Opinion of the Court
McWhorter, Judge:
At the November, 1898, term of the criminal court of Ohio County the grand jury returned the following indictment duly endorsed by the foreman, “a time bill,” to-wit:
“The State of West Virginia, Ohio County, to-wit: In the criminal court of the said County. The jurors of the State of West Virginia, in and for the body of the county of Ohio, and now attending the criminal court of the said county, upon their oaths 'present that, Clarence Johnson and Hugh Devinney, on the 9th day of September in the year of our Lord, one-thousand eight hundred and ninety-eight, in the said…
2Cases cited14 opinions
- State v. CainWest Virginia Supreme Court · 1882
- State v. GreerWest Virginia Supreme Court · 1883
- State v. HatfieldWest Virginia Supreme Court · 1900
- State v. BakerWest Virginia Supreme Court · 1889
- State v. FlanaganWest Virginia Supreme Court · 1885
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3Cited by29 opinions
- State v. BeckWest Virginia Supreme Court · 1981
- State v. CollinsWest Virginia Supreme Court · 1971
- State v. SniderWest Virginia Supreme Court · 1918
- State v. GargilianaWest Virginia Supreme Court · 1953
- State Ex Rel. Hinkle v. SkeenWest Virginia Supreme Court · 1953
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