The defendant, James Ronald Howerton, was convicted by a jury in the Circuit Court of Cabell County of committing second degree murder when he was seventeen years old. He was transferred from juvenile jurisdiction to adult criminal jurisdiction in August, 1981, upon a finding by the trial court that probable cause existed to believe he had committed a murder. W.Va.Code, 49-5-10(d)(1); see State ex rel...
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