State v. Young

*5McGRAW, Chief Justice:

John Lewis Young appeals his conviction of first degree murder rendered by jury verdict on December 18,1981, in the Circuit Court of Mason County. The appellant makes ten assignments of error, which have been consolidated into seven arguments for purposes of appeal: 1) the trial court erred in imposing a harsher sentence upon retrial than that imposed at the original trial of the appellant; 2) the trial court erred in denying the appellant’s motion for a change of venue; 3) the trial court erred in refusing to sequester the jury; 4) the trial court erred in permitting a…