State v. Smith

This case is before this Court 1 upon an appeal from the final order of the Circuit Court of Hampshire County, entered on April 5, 1995. The appellant, Patricia Lynn Smith, was convicted by a jury of the offense of murder of the second degree, W. Va.Code, 61-2-1 [1991], and of the offense of conspiracy, W. Va.Code, 61-10-31 [1971]. The appellant was sentenced to forty years in the penitentiary upon the second degree murder conviction and not less than one nor more than five years upon the conspiracy conviction, the sentences to run consecutively.

This Court has before it the petition for…