State v. Graham

MAYNARD, Chief Justice.

The defendant below, appellant, Richard Lee Graham, was charged with sexual abuse in the first degree of A.W.,1 an eleven-year-old female, in violation of W.Va.Code § 61-8B-7 (1984).2 Following a jury trial on December 10, 1998 in the Circuit Court of Mercer County, the defendant was found guilty. On appeal to this Court, he assigns several errors seeking reversal of his conviction. For the reasons that follow, we affirm.

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FACTS

A thumbnail sketch of the relevant facts is as follows. At trial, eleven-year-old A.W. testified that on March 27, 1998, she had disembarked the…