Legal Opinion
State v. Cooper
West Virginia Supreme Court
Decided June 22, 1983No. 15574PublishedCited by 142 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
HARSHBARGER, Justice:
A Kanawha County Circuit Court jury convicted William Francis Cooper of robbery by violence, W.Va.Code, 61-2-12, 1 and he was sentenced to the West Virginia Penitentiary for forty-five years. He challenges the length of his sentence as violating the principle of proportionality in West Virginia Constitution Article III, Section 5: “Penalties shall be proportioned to the character and degree of the offence,” and lists several trial deficiencies, including admission of his confession, insufficient evidence to convict, ineffective assistance of counsel, instructions, and…
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