State v. Gibson

MITCHELL, Chief Justice.

Defendant was indicted for the first-degree murder of William Travis Runyan. He was tried non-capitally, found guilty as charged, and sentenced to a mandatory term of life imprisonment. Defendant appealed to this Court asserting four assignments of error.

Evidence presented by the State, including defendant’s inculpatory statement made prior to his arrest, tended to show that Travis Runyan and Michael Hayes arranged a meeting for the afternoon of 10 February 1993 to settle a dispute over Travis’s girlfriend,- Jennifer Hall, who was Michael’s former girlfriend. The…