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STATE v. DAVIS

No. 21111.

427 S.E.2d 754 (1993)

189 W.Va. 59

STATE of West Virginia, Plaintiff Below, Appellee, v. Dwayne Junior DAVIS, Defendant Below, Appellant.

Supreme Court of Appeals of West Virginia.

Decided February 24, 1993.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Teresa A. Tarr, Asst. Pros. Atty., Parkersburg, for appellee.

Joseph T. Santer, Santer & Santer, Parkersburg, for appellant.

PER CURIAM:

This is an appeal by the defendant, Dwayne Junior Davis, from an order of the Circuit Court of Wood County sentencing him to life in the penitentiary as a recidivist for breaking and entering. In the present appeal, the defendant claims that the sentence imposed is wholly disproportionate to the crime committed and that the sentence violates the proportionality principle implicit in the cruel and unusual punishment clause of the Eighth Amendment of the...

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