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ADAMS v. COMMONWEALTH

111 S.E.2d 396 (1959)

201 Va. 321

Ollie ADAMS, Jr. v. COMMONWEALTH of Virginia.

Supreme Court of Appeals of Virginia.

November 30, 1959.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Jerrold G. Weinberg, Morris H. Fine, Norfolk (Fine, Fine, Legum, Weinberg & Schwan, Norfolk, on brief), for plaintiff in error.

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

Before EGGLESTON, C. J., and SPRATLEY, BUCHANAN, WHITTLE, SNEAD and I'ANSON, JJ.

BUCHANAN, Justice.

Ollie Adams, Jr., was indicted for the murder of Walker A. Jordan, was convicted by a jury of voluntary manslaughter and sentenced to five years in the penitentiary in accordance with the verdict. He was granted a writ of error. His assignments of error number 23 but in his brief they are resolved into four questions concerning the sufficiency of the evidence, the refusal of an instruction, the admission of certain testimony, and the argument of...

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