State v. Wyant

This is an appeal from a final order of the Circuit Court of Jackson County, entered August 16,1983, which sentenced the appellant, Roger Wyant, to a term of life imprisonment at the state penitentiary without possibility of parole upon his conviction, by jury verdict, of the crime of first degree murder. The appellant raises three principal assignments of error: (1) that the trial court erred in refusing to suppress a confession; (2) that the court erred in allowing testimony relating to blood and hair samples taken from the alleged murder weapon; (3) that the State failed to prove the…