WELLS v. COMMONWEALTH


57 S.E.2d 898 (1950)

190 Va. 619

WELLS v. COMMONWEALTH.

Supreme Court of Appeals of Virginia.

March 13, 1950.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

George P. Cridlin, Lloyd M. Robinette, Jonesville, for plaintiff in error.

J. Lindsay Almond, Jr., Attorney General, H. T. Williams, Jr., Special Assistant Attorney General, for the Commonwealth.

Before HUDGINS, C. J., and GREGORY, EGGLESTON, SPRATLEY, BUCHANAN, STAPLES and MILLER, JJ.


BUCHANAN, Justice.

Eugene Wells stabbed and killed J. B. Huff. On his trial before a jury he was convicted of murder in the first degree and sentenced to 20 years in the penitentiary. On this writ of error he contends first that the verdict was not warranted by the evidence.

Wells and Huff lived in the same neighborhood in Lee county. Wells was 22 years old and not in good health. Huff was a year or two younger but bigger and stronger. For some time the relations...

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