Legal Opinion
State v. Jackson
West Virginia Supreme Court
Decided December 15, 1982No. 15419PublishedCited by 35 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
HARSHBAUGER, Justice:
Benjamin Franklin Jackson was convicted in Kanawha County for the first-degree murder of Stephen Michael Weems, despite his insanity defense; but the jury recommended mercy. He claims these errors: admission of his tape-recorded confession, the medical examiner’s testimony, the state psychiatrist’s testimony on rebuttal, and the trial judge’s failure to present “not guilty by reason of insanity” as a possible verdict and to instruct about what happens to a defendant adjudged criminally insane.
Jackson and Weems had been friends for years. On the morning of the shooting in…
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3Cited by35 opinions
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