State v. Crockett

Caplan, Chief Justice:

The defendant, Ida Mae Crockett, was charged by an indictment returned in the Circuit Court of Kanawha County of the crime of robbery by violence. At trial upon said charge she was convicted by a jury and was sentenced to confinement in the West Virginia State Prison for Women for a term of twenty-one years. The defendant’s motion to set aside the verdict having been denied, this appeal was prosecuted.

Based upon the cumulative effect of numerous errors, particularly the improper intervention and discriminatory conduct of the court, we find that the defendant was denied…