State v. Jones

MILLER, Justice:

The defendant, William Jones, appeals his sentence of life imprisonment under our habitual criminal statute, W.Va.Code, 61-11-18 (1943). He raises several assignments of error with regard to his recidivist conviction, but we find no merit in them and, thus, affirm the conviction.

Mr. Jones was convicted by a Morgan County jury of making threats to kidnap and demand ransom under W.Va.Code, 61-2-14C.1 This conviction arose from an incident in the defendant’s home when he held an appliance repairman at gunpoint because the repairman was unable to fix Mr. Jones’ stove to his…