State v. Rhodes

Miller, Justice:

Lawrence Rhodes appeals from a 1972 final judgment of the Logan County Circuit Court sentencing him to a term of twenty-five years confinement on a conviction of armed robbery. He assigns three major errors, that: (1) the court unduly restricted the testimony of his psychiatrists; (2) the three-term rule contained in W. Va. Code, 62-3-21, precluded his trial; and (3) his absence from certain conferences during the trial violated his constitutional right to be present at all critical stages of the trial. We find merit in the first and third ground, but not as to the second.

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