Legal Opinion

State v. Cain

West Virginia Supreme Court

Decided March 4, 1875PublishedCited by 13 opinions

Writ of error operating as a supersedeas to a judgment of the circuit court of Wood county, rendered -on the 3d day of July 1874, in a cause therein then pending on an indictment against John Cain. The cause reaches this Court by petition of the respondent, Cain. The case is stated in the opinion of the Court.

1Opinion of the Court

Hayhond, President.

On the 1st day of December 1873, the grand jury of the circuit court of the comity of Wood found an indictment against the defendant (John Cain), which is in these words, viz: “State of West Virginia, Wood county, to-wi't: in the circuit court ot said county. The jurors of the State of West Virginia, in and for the body of the county of Wood, and now attending the said court, upon their oaths present, that John Cain, on the first day of December, A. D. one thousand eight hundred and seventy-three, in the said county, unlawfully did sell and furnish to Michael Toole…

2Cases cited4 opinions

  1. Bartlet v. KingMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1815
  2. Forqueran v. DonnallyWest Virginia Supreme Court · 1874
  3. Commonwealth v. YoungSupreme Court of Virginia · 1860
  4. State v. ChurchWest Virginia Supreme Court · 1870

3Cited by13 opinions

  1. Coal & Coke Ry. Co. v. ConleyWest Virginia Supreme Court · 1910
  2. State v. HardenWest Virginia Supreme Court · 1907
  3. Roby v. SheppardWest Virginia Supreme Court · 1896
  4. Curran v. OwensWest Virginia Supreme Court · 1879
  5. Shepherd v. BrownWest Virginia Supreme Court · 1887

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