PATTERSON v. COM.

Record No. 801290.

283 S.E.2d 190 (1981)

Larry Edwin PATTERSON v. COMMONWEALTH of Virginia.

Supreme Court of Virginia.

October 16, 1981.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Philip S. Marstiller, Richmond (Sally Yates Wood, Thomas & Sewell, P. C, Richmond, on briefs), for appellant.

Jerry P. Slonaker, Asst. Atty. Gen. (Marshall Coleman, Atty. Gen., Vera S. Warthen, Asst. Atty. Gen., on brief), for appellee.

Before CARRICO, C. J., and HARRISON, COCHRAN, POFF, COMPTON, THOMPSON and STEPHENSON, JJ.


CARRICO, Chief Justice.

A jury below convicted the defendant, Larry Edwin Patterson, of rape and abduction. In accordance with the jury's verdicts, the trial court sentenced the defendant to serve a total of 25 years in the penitentiary. We granted the defendant an appeal confined to the question whether the trial court improperly limited the use of a preliminary hearing transcript in the defense effort to impeach the prosecutrix' testimony.

In her testimony...

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