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CALLAHAN v. COMMONWEALTH

63 S.E.2d 617 (1951)

CALLAHAN v. COMMONWEALTH.

Supreme Court of Appeals of Virginia.

March 12, 1951.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

J. Segar Gravatt, Blackstone, W. E. Neblett, Lunenburg, for plaintiff in error.

J. Lindsay Almond, Jr., Atty. Gen., H. T. Williams, Jr., Sp. Asst., for the Commonwealth.

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

EGGLESTON, Justice.

Douglas Callahan, having been indicted for the murder of David Emmett Jones, was tried by a jury, convicted of voluntary manslaughter, and his punishment fixed at five years in the penitentiary. We granted a writ of error to review the judgment entered upon that verdict.

The main assignment of error is that the evidence is insufficient to support the verdict. The record shows that on Saturday, December 3, 1949, between the hours of 9:30...

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