STATE v. NEWCOMB

No. 34142.

679 S.E.2d 675 (2009)

STATE of West Virginia, Plaintiff Below, Appellee v. Paul NEWCOMB, Defendant Below, Appellant.

Supreme Court of Appeals of West Virginia.

Decided June 23, 2009.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Darrell V. McGraw, Jr., Esq., Attorney General, R. Christopher Smith, Esq., Assistant Attorney General, Charleston, for Appellee.

Dwayne J. Adkins, Esq., Logan County Public Defender, Logan, for Appellant.


WORKMAN, Justice:

This case is before this Court upon appeal of a final order of the Circuit Court of Logan County entered on August 3, 2007. In that order, Paul Newcomb (hereinafter "the appellant") was sentenced to life imprisonment without a recommendation of mercy for his conviction of first degree murder. In this appeal, the appellant asserts that the circuit court committed error in failing to strike two jurors for cause; that the murder weapon as well as certain...

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