State v. McMannis

McGraw, Justice:

This case is before the Court upon a writ of error to a final judgment of the Circuit Court of Hampshire County, entered on January 5, 1976, sentencing the defendant, Richard Ray McMannis, to life imprisonment under this state’s habitual criminal statute, W.Va. Code, 61-11-18, 19.

Following defendant’s conviction of grand larceny on November 6, 1975, the prosecutor filed an information and an amended information 1 pursuant to W.Va. Code, 61-11-19, 2 alleging the defendant was the same person who had been twice before convicted in the United States of crimes punishable by…