WHITLEY v. COMMONWEALTH

Record No. 811071.

286 S.E.2d 162 (1982)

Richard Lee WHITLEY v. COMMONWEALTH of Virginia.

Supreme Court of Virginia.

January 22, 1982.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Warren W. McLain, Norman A. Townsend, Arlington (Kendrick, Gearheart, Aylor & Lockowandt, Arlington, Graber, Stetler & Townsend, Alexandria, on briefs), for appellant.

Richard B. Smith, Asst. Atty. Gen. (Marshall Coleman, Atty. Gen., on brief), for appellee.

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


POFF, Justice.

In a bifurcated trial of an indictment under Code § 18.2-31(d), a jury convicted Richard C. Whitley of capital murder in the commission of robbery while armed with a deadly weapon and fixed his punishment at death. The trial court confirmed the conviction, considered the probation report, and imposed the sentence fixed by the jury. We have consolidated Whitley's statutory right of sentence review with...

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