State v. Slider

Haden, Judge:

This is an appeal from a final judgment of the Circuit Court of Monongalia County of February 5, 1971, which sentenced the defendant, George F. Slider, Jr., to serve an indeterminate term of from ten years to life imprisonment in the West Virginia State Penitentiary after being convicted by a jury for the crime of armed robbery.

The defendant was charged in an indictment returned by the Grand Jury of Monongalia County with the crime of armed robbery of one James Petroski and was also charged with other lesser included offenses. The facts' adduced in the trial on behalf of the…