State v. Hicks

This ease is before this Court upon appeal of a final order of the Circuit Court of McDowell County entered on October 7, 2009. In that order, Amos Gabriel Hicks (hereinafter “the appellant”) was sentenced to life imprisonment without mercy for his convictions of first degree murder, malicious assault, and conspiracy following a jury trial that began on July 20, 2009. In this appeal, he asserts that the circuit court erred in admitting testimony in violation of Rule 404(b) of the West Virginia Rules of Evidence.1 He also argues that the evidence presented was insufficient to sustain his…