STATE v. GILES

No. 19048.

395 S.E.2d 481 (1990)

STATE of West Virginia v. Elbert Wayne GILES, Jr.

Supreme Court of Appeals of West Virginia.

Rehearing Denied July 24, 1990.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Frank W. Helvey, Jr., Public Legal Services Council, Charleston, for Elbert Wayne Giles, Jr.

Roger W. Tompkins, Atty. Gen., Joanna I. Tabit, Asst. Atty. Gen., Charleston, for State of W. Va.


BROTHERTON, Justice:

On the morning of February 8, 1987, relatives discovered the body of seventy-three-year-old Ann Woods on the bedroom floor of her home in Fayette County, West Virginia. Her throat had been cut, and, as a result, she died within minutes. The seventeen-year-old appellant herein, Elbert Wayne Giles, Jr., who was a neighbor of the victim, was arrested later that evening after he apparently confessed to...

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