State v. Hedgepeth

EXUM, Chief Justice.

On proper bills of indictment, defendant was tried and convicted of assault with a deadly weapon with intent to kill inflicting serious injury upon his estranged wife, Beverly Hedgepeth, and of first-degree murder of Richard Casey. Defendant was sentenced to death on the murder conviction and to twenty years imprisonment on the felonious assault conviction.

Defendant appeals, assigning numerous errors to all phases of his trial.

We find no error in defendant’s murder conviction or in his conviction on the felonious assault charge. However, we vacate the sentence of death and…