State v. Stacy

WORKMAN, Justice:

This case is before the Court upon an appeal by Bobby Dean Stacy (Stacy). It arises from the defendant’s July 27, 1982, felony-murder conviction by a jury1 in the Circuit Court of Cabell County. The defendant was sentenced to life imprisonment without mercy for the December 14, 1981 murder of Huntington Police Officer Paul J. Harmon (Harmon). The assignments of error made by the defendant include: 1) the trial court erred in instructing the jury on felony-murder without also instructing on each essential element of the underlying felony and without instructing on the State’s…