State v. Cowan

Sprouse, Justice:

This case involves an appeal by the defendant, George R. Cowan, from a final order of the Circuit Court of Jackson County, by which order the circuit court entered judgment upon a jury verdict finding the defendant guilty of armed robbery. The defendant was sentenced to a term of ten years in the West Virginia Penitentiary.

The defendant alleges several errors were committed during the trial of the case, but on final submission for this review, he advances only two alleged errors. One relates to the denial by the trial court of a self-defense instruction, and the second…