State v. Berry

This is an appeal from a final order of the Circuit Court of Raleigh County, entered August 9, 1984, which sentenced the appellant, Eddie Eugene Berry, to imprisonment in the penitentiary for a term of not less than five nor more than eighteen years upon his conviction, after a jury trial, of the crime of murder of the second degree. The appellant contends that the trial court committed error in its rulings on the admissibility of certain evidence and in its instructions to the jury. We find no reversible error, and we affirm.

On the evening of January 23, 1982, Loretta Montrose Berry, the…