State v. Ray

MILLER, Chief Justice:

This is an appeal by Melvin Ray from an order of the Circuit Court of Kanawha County sentencing him to from ten to twenty years in the State Penitentiary for first degree sexual assault. The defendant makes a number of assignments of error which relate to the reception of evidence, the instructions in the case, the trial court’s handling of the jury, and the sufficiency of the evidence presented. After examining the record, we conclude that the trial court committed no reversible error, and we affirm the defendant’s conviction.

The defendant, Melvin Ray, and his brother,…