FOGG v. COMMONWEALTH


159 S.E.2d 616 (1968)

208 Va. 541

Bernard Ross FOGG v. COMMONWEALTH of Virginia.

Supreme Court of Appeals of Virginia.

Rehearing Denied April 22, 1968.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Peter W. Rowe, Norfolk (Sterling W. Walker, Cowper & Rowe, Norfolk, on the brief), for plaintiff in error.

D. Gardiner Tyler, Asst. Atty. Gen. (Robert Y. Button, Atty. Gen., on the brief), for defendant in error.

Before EGGLESTON, C. J., and BUCHANAN, SNEAD, I'ANSON, CARRICO, GORDON and HARRISON, JJ.


EGGLESTON, Chief Justice.

This is a companion case to Brickhouse v. Commonwealth, Va., 159 S.E.2d 611, decided today. According to the record in the present case, Bernard Ross Fogg, a Negro, was indicted at the October, 1966 term of the court below for the rape and robbery of Vera Lynn Shaw, a white woman.1 At the November term he was indicted for the abduction of the prosecutrix. On November 22 the...

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