State v. Bongalis

How courts have described this case

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• holding that “[a] felony is an 'infamous crime' as it is punishable by imprisonment in the State penitentiary”
• trial court’s refusal to give self-defense instruction upheld where appellant failed to produce sufficient evidence that victim was about to inflict death or serious bodily injury to appellant
• “‘“Malice, express or implied, is an essential element of murder in the second degree, and if absent the homicide is of no higher grade than voluntary manslaughter.” Syllabus Point 1, State v. Galford, 87 W.Va. 358, 105 S.E. 237 (1920

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).