DEAN v. COMMONWEALTH


166 S.E.2d 228 (1969)

209 Va. 666

Jarette Arlo DEAN v. COMMONWEALTH of Virginia.

Supreme Court of Appeals of Virginia.

March 10, 1969.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Donald D. Litten, Harrisonburg (J. Lynn Lucas, Luray, on brief), for plaintiff in error.

A. R. Woodroof, Asst. Atty. Gen., (Robert Y. Button, Atty. Gen., on brief), for defendant in error.

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


GORDON, Justice.

Someone shot and killed Larry Elwood Lam on a public highway near Harrisonburg during the early morning of February 20, 1966. In the county jail later that morning, Jarette Arlo Dean confessed that he had shot Lam. At Dean's trial in March 1967, the jury found him guilty of second degree murder and fixed his sentence at five years in the penitentiary. Dean appeals from a final order entered April 10, 1967, sentencing him in accordance with the jury...

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