State v. Davis

This is an appeal from a final order of the Circuit Court of Kanawha County, entered October 17, 1986, which sentenced the appellant, Gerald W. Davis, to three consecutive terms of imprisonment in the penitentiary upon his conviction by a jury of the offenses of abduction with intent to defile, first-degree sexual abuse and second-degree sexual assault. The appellant contends that the multiple sentences violate principles of double jeopardy, that the evidence was insufficient to support the sexual assault conviction, that the trial court erred in refusing to give a defense instruction and…