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STATE v. KANNEY

No. 15165.

289 S.E.2d 485 (1982)

STATE of West Virginia v. Alfred Winfred KANNEY.

Supreme Court of Appeals of West Virginia.

March 26, 1982.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Askin & Burke and Steven M. Askin, Martinsburg, for appellant.

Chauncey H. Browning, Atty. Gen., and Jon Anthony Reed, Deputy Atty. Gen., Charleston, for appellee.

PER CURIAM:

Alfred Winfred Kanney appeals from a conviction of obtaining money by false pretenses in violation of W.Va.Code, 61-3-24. The principal assignment of error relied on for reversal is that the prosecuting attorney's statements during closing argument were so fundamentally improper that they constitute reversible error. We agree and reverse.

Kanney was jointly indicted for obtaining money by false pretenses but was tried separately in the Circuit...

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