SMITH v. COMMONWEALTH


65 S.E.2d 528 (1951)

192 Va. 453

SMITH v. COMMONWEALTH.

Supreme Court of Appeals of Virginia.

June 18, 1951.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Carlton E. Holladay, Wakefield, M. W. Booth, Petersburg, W. Francis Binford, Prince George, for plaintiff in error.

J. Lindsay Almond, Jr., Atty. Gen., Thomas M. Miller, Asst. Atty. Gen, for the Commonwealth.

Before HUDGINS, C. J., and EGGLESTON, SPRATLEY, BUCHANAN and WHITTLE, JJ.


BUCHANAN, Justice.

The defendant, Jacob Jeffrey Smith, has been sentenced to serve fifty years in the penitentiary for killing Robert West, pursuant to the verdict of a jury finding him guilty of murder in the first degree. His main assignment of error is that there was not sufficient evidence to support the verdict. Two other assignments, on the grounds of after-discovered evidence and the incompetence of a juror, were not relied on in argument.

West was...

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