102 W. Va. 169 - State v. Houchins’s Empirical Analysis
1926
Citation profile
5
cited by 5 later decisions
3
states following
February 1982
most recently cited
5 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Burton v. United States · State v. Cooper · Gunter v. State · Bell v. State · State v. Evans
Most-quoted passages
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“"We think that the facts pleaded bring the case within what is regarded as an exception to the general rule, that the conviction or acquittal of one charged with the murder of, or assault upon, one person, is not a bar to his subsequent prosecution for the murder of, or assault upon, another person at the same time.. . . [T]he well recognized exception to the general rule [is] where the double killing is the result of one shot or stroke directed by a single act or volition towards one person. . . ." [ 102 W.Va. at 176-77 , 134 S.E. at 743 ].”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
How this case has been treated — in progress
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