Legal Opinion
State v. Sheppard
West Virginia Supreme Court
Decided November 10, 1983No. 15901PublishedCited by 54 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
McGRAW, Chief Justice:
Thomas Sheppard appeals from a final order of the Circuit Court of Logan County which sentenced him to three consecutive thirty-year terms of imprisonment in the penitentiary upon his conviction of two counts of kidnapping and one count of armed robbery. We find no reversible error and we affirm the conviction.
At approximately 11:00 p.m. on the night of December 19, 1978, Paul Maynard arrived for work at the Kroger store in Mount Gay, Logan County. As Maynard was walking from his car to the store, a man wearing a ski mask and brandishing a gun approached him in the…
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