State v. Parker

WORKMAN, Justice:

This case is before the Court upon the appeal of Mark Allen Parker (Parker). It *621arises from the April 25,1985,1 jury verdict in Wood County, West Virginia, which found the defendant guilty of first degree murder without a recommendation of mercy for the death of eleven-year-old Dale Mowery. The defendant raises three assignments of error based on the proceedings which occurred in the lower court: 1) whether the prompt presentment statute (W.Va.Code § 62-1-5 [1965]) was violated when the defendant was not presented before a Magistrate after probable cause was established that…