JONES v. COMMONWEALTH


204 S.E.2d 247 (1974)

Samuel JONES v. COMMONWEALTH of Virginia.

Supreme Court of Virginia.

April 22, 1974.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Robert G. Cabell, Jr., Richmond (White, Cabell, Paris & Lowenstein, Richmond, on brief), for plaintiff in error.

Linwood T. Wells, Jr., Asst. Atty. Gen. (Andrew P. Miller, Atty. Gen., on brief), for defendant in error.

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


HARRISON, Justice.

Samuel Jones was convicted of robbery. He appealed the final judgment of the lower court imposing sentence and assigned numerous errors including the sufficiency of the evidence to convict. We granted him a writ of error limited to a consideration of whether the trial court erred in permitting Fausto Molinet to testify that defendant admitted his guilt of the robbery during a conversation they had preliminary to a polygraph test.

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