State v. Whitt

MILLER, Justice:

In 1984, the defendant was convicted by a jury in the Circuit Court of Raleigh County of breaking and entering. 1 He received a one-to-ten year sentence for the breaking and entering conviction, which was enhanced five years because of a prior felony conviction. See W.Va.Code, 61-11-18 (1943). The defendant’s chief assignments of error are the trial court’s failure to suppress evidence secured from a boarding house where the defendant lived and the failure to promptly present him before a magistrate. A claim is also made that a State’s witness lacked personal knowledge and…