Legal Opinion
State v. Pratt
West Virginia Supreme Court
Decided May 2, 1978No. 13772 and 13773PublishedCited by 102 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
Harshbarger, Justice:
Raymond Pratt was found guilty on January 28, 1975 of robbing the Westover Foodland in November, 1974. He then, on February 19, 1975 was found guilty of having robbed the Acme Supermarket September 14, 1974. Both trials were in Monongalia County, where the crimes were committed.
We have consolidated the cases in this opinion because several of the assignments of error are common to both.
I
In both cases defendant moved for change of venue because of wide-spread hostility and angry sentiment in Monongalia County against him. He introduced newspaper articles that reported the…
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