State v. Haddox

In this appeal from the Circuit Court of Cabell County, the appellant, Cheryl Ann Haddox, seeks reversal of a final

judgment of conviction entered upon a jury verdict finding her guilty of second degree murder.

The appellant assigns as error the giving, over objection, of Court’s Instruction No. 10. That instruction reads, in pertinent part, as follows:

“The Court instructs the jury that if you believe from the evidence beyond a reasonable doubt that the defendant, Cheryl Haddox, used a deadly or dangerous weapon, that is, a knife, without any or upon slight provocation, then the law of the…