WOODSON v. COMMONWEALTH


176 S.E.2d 818 (1970)

George Delano WOODSON v. COMMONWEALTH of Virginia.

Supreme Court of Appeals of Virginia.

October 12, 1970.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Donald G. Pendleton, Amherst, Richard S. Pendleton, Madison Heights, for plaintiff in error.

A. R. Woodroof, Asst. Atty. Gen., (Andrew P. Miller, Atty. Gen., on brief), for defendant in error.

Before SNEAD, C. J., and I'ANSON, CARRICO, GORDON, HARRISON, COCHRAN and HARMAN, JJ.


COCHRAN, Justice.

George Delano Woodson, the defendant, was indicted for the murder of his wife, Yvonne. A jury tried and convicted him of murder in the second degree and fixed his punishment at imprisonment for ten years in the penitentiary. From the judgment of the trial court sentencing him in accordance with the verdict we granted Woodson a writ of error.

In his assignments of error Woodson contends that his conviction should be reversed because (1) it...

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