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STATE v. NUCKOLLS

No. 14701.

273 S.E.2d 87 (1980)

STATE of West Virginia v. Lucille S. NUCKOLLS.

Supreme Court of Appeals of West Virginia.

December 19, 1980.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Preiser & Wilson, Franklin S. Fragale, Jr., and John W. Swisher, Charleston, for plaintiff in error.

Chauncey H. Browning, Atty. Gen., S. Clark Woodroe, Asst. Atty. Gen., Charleston, for defendant in error.

NEELY, Chief Justice:

Lucille S. Nuckolls appeals from her conviction for the murder of her husband, Robert E. Nuckolls, and her sentence to life imprisonment without mercy in the Circuit Court of Mercer County. The appellant assigns numerous errors;1 however, our disposition of the two primary assignments make it unnecessary to address the others. We award appellant a new trial primarily because the prosecutor made statements that amounted...

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