BASS v. COMMONWEALTH


187 S.E.2d 188 (1972)

212 Va. 699

Bernard Ulysses BASS v. COMMONWEALTH of Virginia.

Supreme Court of Virginia.

March 6, 1972.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

A. Russell Beazley, Jr., Richmond (Anderson, Haw, Parkerson & Beazley, Richmond, on the brief), for plaintiff in error.

Burnett Miller, III, Asst. Atty. Gen. (Andrew P. Miller, Atty. Gen., on the brief), for defendant in error.

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


CARRICO, Justice.

Bernard Ulysses Bass, the defendant, was convicted by a jury of the rape of Evelyn Smith, a female over the age of sixteen years, and his punishment was fixed at five years in the penitentiary. To the final order approving the verdict and imposing the sentence, the defendant was granted a writ of error.

The sole question to be decided is whether the trial court erred in admitting into evidence a report of the Chief Medical Examiner showing...

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