ACORD v. HEDRICK

No. 16963.

342 S.E.2d 120 (1986)

Rodger ACORD v. Jerry HEDRICK, Warden, West Virginia Penitentiary

Supreme Court of Appeals of West Virginia.

March 11, 1986.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Lee H. Adler, Beckley, for appellant.

Bethany Boyd, Asst. Atty. Gen., Charleston, for appellee.


NEELY, Justice:

On 13 January 1983 a Raleigh County jury found Rodger Acord guilty of first-degree sexual assault and subsequently the trial court sentenced him to ten to twenty years in the West Virginia Penitentiary. Mr. Acord has petitioned this Court for a writ of habeas corpus in which he alleges several errors of constitutional dimensions in the proceedings below. We find no error warranting an award of a writ.

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