State v. McCarty

This is an appeal by Bobby Walter McCarty from an order of the Circuit Court of Wyoming County sentencing him to life in the Penitentiary, with a recommendation of mercy, for first-degree murder. On appeal, he claims that the evidence considered in the light most favorable to the State was not sufficient to support a first-degree murder verdict. He also claims that the trial court erred in allowing a State trooper to comment on his invocation of his right to remain silent; that the court erred in admitting into evidence the products of an illegal search and seizure; that the court erred in…