TAYLOR v. COMMONWEALTH


187 S.E.2d 180 (1972)

212 Va. 725

Emmett Lee TAYLOR v. COMMONWEALTH of Virginia.

Supreme Court of Virginia.

March 6, 1972.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Robert G. Cabell, Jr., Richmond, for plaintiff in error.

Gilbert W. Haith, Asst. Atty. Gen. (Andrew P. Miller, Atty. Gen., on brief), for defendant in error.

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


HARRISON, Justice.

Emmett Lee Taylor was convicted in the court below of robbery and sentenced to serve five years in the penitentiary. We granted him a writ of error, and we are concerned here with two issues—the admissibility of an oral statement made by Taylor following his arrest, and whether the venue of the crime was established to be in Hanover County.

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