GIBSON v. COMMONWEALTH

Record No. 750071.

219 S.E.2d 845 (1975)

Theodore Roosevelt GIBSON, Jr. v. COMMONWEALTH of Virginia.

Supreme Court of Virginia.

December 1, 1975.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Overton P. Pollard, Richmond (Moore & Pollard, Richmond, on brief), for plaintiff in error.

Jerry P. Slonaker, Asst. Atty. Gen. (Andrew P. Miller, Atty. Gen., on brief, for defendant in error.

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


CARRICO, Justice.

The defendant, Theodore Roosevelt Gibson, Jr., was indicted for the murders of his wife, Marian J. Gibson, and of his father-in-law, Maryland Elmore Coley. Tried by a jury upon his pleas of not guilty, the defendant was convicted of murder of the first degree for the death of his wife, with punishment fixed at life imprisonment, and of murder of the second degree for the death of his father-in-law, with punishment fixed at twenty years imprisonment...

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