The West Virginia Supreme Court has upheld the conviction of a Lincoln County man found guilty of murdering his wife. Edward Earl Jeffers, 37, of Hamlin had appealed a murder conviction in the 2017 death of his wife, but the high court on Thursday upheld the conviction in a memorandum decision.Jeffers was found guilty in 2022 of fatally cutting the throat of his wife during an argument. Stephanie Jeffers was found outside an apartment complex with multiple stab wounds to the neck and torso and was pronounced dead at the hospital.According to court documents, Edward Jeffers had appealed his conviction and was seeking a new trial due to prosecutors allegedly failing to produce several hearing transcripts related to a previous appeal