SHOOK v. COMMONWEALTH


181 S.E.2d 632 (1971)

212 Va. 36

Lawrence Henry SHOOK v. COMMONWEALTH of Virginia.

Supreme Court of Appeals of Virginia.

June 14, 1971.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

John B. Gilmer, Richmond, 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, GORDON, HARRISON, COCHRAN and HARMAN, JJ.


SNEAD, Chief Justice.

The court below, sitting without a jury, found Lawrence Henry Shook, defendant, guilty of malicious wounding and abduction. He received a sentence of 15 years in the State Penitentiary on the conviction of malicious wounding, and a sentence of 10 years on the conviction of abduction, such sentences to run concurrently. We granted defendant a writ of error.

In this appeal defendant challenges the sufficiency of the evidence to convict...

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