State v. Chaffin

Berry, Judge:

This is an appeal from a final judgment of the Circuit Court of Pendleton County of May 4,1971 which sentenced the defendant, Paul E. Chaffin, to serve an indeterminate sentence of from ten years to life in the West Virginia State Penitentiary after being convicted by a jury of the crime of armed robbery.

The defendant was jointly indicted with two other men for armed robbery, but was tried separately. The three men who were jointly indicted in this case apparently escaped from the state penitentiary at Moundsville, West Virginia and stole a car which they drove to Pendleton…