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QUINTANA v. COM.

Record No. 811845.

295 S.E.2d 643 (1982)

Manuel C. QUINTANA v. COMMONWEALTH of Virginia.

Supreme Court of Virginia.

September 9, 1982.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Jose R. Recinto, Jr., Arlington (Benjamin N. A. Kendrick, Domingo L. Ordoveza, Ordoveza & Recinto, Arlington, on brief), for appellant.

Thomas D. Bagwell, Asst. Atty. Gen. (Gerald L. Baliles, Atty. Gen., on brief), for appellee.

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

COMPTON, Justice.

This is an automatic review of a death sentence and the underlying conviction of capital murder in the commission of robbery while armed with a deadly weapon.

The victim of the crime, Ofelia Quintero, a 72-year-old native of Cuba, was killed by multiple hammer blows to her head, neck, and back. Numerous articles missing from her Arlington apartment were discovered in a search of a car owned by Manuel C. Quintana. Quintana, a Cuban native...

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