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LUCAS v. COMMONWEALTH

112 S.E.2d 915 (1960)

201 Va. 599

Grover Earl LUCAS v. COMMONWEALTH of Virginia.

Supreme Court of Appeals of Virginia.

March 7, 1960.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

G. W. Reed, Jr., Roanoke, for plaintiff in error.

A. S. Harrison, Jr., Atty. Gen., D. Gardiner Tyler, Asst. Atty. Gen., for defendant in error.

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

WHITTLE, Justice.

This case is before us on a writ of error to a judgment entered by the Hustings Court of the City of Roanoke on March 16, 1959, wherein Grover Earl Lucas, hereinafter called the defendant, was sentenced to death for the murder of his wife, Connie Maxey Lucas.

The record discloses that at the June, 1958, term the defendant was separately indicted for the murder of his said wife; his son, Dennis Freddie Lucas; and his daughter, Mildred Joyce...

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