West Virginia Supreme Court· 12/11/1995

State v. Garrett

Citations

466 S.E.2d 481
195 W. Va. 630
1995 W. Va. LEXIS 238

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“This Court will not pass on a nonjurisdictional question which has not been decided by the trial court in the first instance.” (internal quotations and citations omitted)
“Appellant’s trial counsel failed to object ... to the State’s closing argument, thereby failing to preserve the error, if it was error, for appellate review.”
corpus delicti satisfied by evidence of skeletal remains of victim and circumstantial evidence of death by criminal agency, not accident
“ ‘ “This Court will not pass on a nonjuris-dictional question which has not been decided by the trial court in the first instance.” Syllabus Point 2, Sands v. Security Trust Co., 143 W.Va. 622, 102 S.E.2d 733 (1958

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Judges: McHugh, Albright, Miller

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