EVANS v. COM.

Record No. 811056.

284 S.E.2d 816 (1981)

Wilbert Lee EVANS v. COMMONWEALTH of Virginia.

Supreme Court of Virginia.

December 4, 1981.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Stefan C. Long, E. Blair Brown, Alexandria, for appellant.

Jerry P. Slonaker, Asst. Atty. Gen. (Marshall Coleman, Atty. Gen., on brief), for appellee.

Before CARRICO, C. J., and HARRISON, COCHRAN, POFF, COMPTON, THOMPSON and STEPHENSON, JJ.


COCHRAN, Justice.

A jury found Wilbert Lee Evans guilty of capital murder as defined by Code § 18.2-31(f), in the willful, deliberate, and premeditated killing of a law-enforcement officer for the purpose of interfering with the performance of the officer's official duties.1 In the second stage of the bifurcated proceeding conducted pursuant to the provisions of Code §§ 19.2-264.3 and -264.4, the same jury fixed Evans's...

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