BOATRIGHT v. COMMONWEALTH


96 S.E.2d 772 (1957)

198 Va. 753

Pat BOATRIGHT v. COMMONWEALTH of Virginia.

Supreme Court of Appeals of Virginia.

March 11, 1957.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Stanley H. Botts, Big Stone Gap, for plaintiff in error.

John Wingo Knowles, Asst. Atty. Gen. (J. Lindsay Almond, Jr., Atty. Gen., on the brief), for defendant in error.

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


EGGLESTON, Justice.

On this writ of error Pat Boatright, sometimes hereinafter referred to as the defendant, challenges the validity of a judgment entered upon a jury's verdict finding him guilty of the charge, specified in a warrant, of selling a bottle of wine to Otis Barker, in violation of Code, § 4-58. In his assignments of error the defendant challenges the sufficiency of the evidence to sustain the verdict, the admissibility of certain evidence characterized...

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