MENDOZA v. COMMONWEALTH


103 S.E.2d 1 (1958)

199 Va. 961

Alvania MENDOZA v. COMMONWEALTH of Virginia.

Supreme Court of Appeals of Virginia.

Rehearing Denied June 12, 1958.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Louis B. Fine, Norfolk, for plaintiff in error.

Thomas M. Miller, Asst. Atty. Gen. (A. S. Harrison, Jr., Atty. Gen., on brief), for defendant in error.

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


HUDGINS, Chief Justice.

This writ of error brings under review a verdict and judgment sentencing Alvania Mendoza, hereinafter designated the accused, to three years confinement in the penitentiary for producing an abortion on Villis Lee Green.

The accused's first contention is that the lower court committed reversible error in refusing to strike the evidence or to set aside the verdict on the ground that the Commonwealth failed to prove the corpus delicti...

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