State Ex Rel. Williams v. Narick

The petitioner, John Edward Williams, was indicted by the Marshall County grand jury in March, 1974, for the murders of Carlton and Dorothy Harris. Williams was tried for the death of Dorothy Harris in April of 1975, and on May 14, 1975, he was convicted of murder in the first degree. That judgment was subsequently appealed to this Court and in a decision filed December 5, 1978, the conviction was reversed and the case remanded for a new trial. State v. Williams, _W.Va. _, 249 S.E.2d 758 (1978).

The reversal of the conviction in the first Williams opinion was based primarily upon evidentiary…