ROYAL v. COM.

Record No. 860796.

362 S.E.2d 323 (1987)

Cynthia Ann ROYAL v. COMMONWEALTH of Virginia.

Supreme Court of Virginia.

November 25, 1987.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Oldric J. LaBell, Jr., Newport News, for appellant.

Leah A. Darron, Asst. Atty. Gen. (Mary Sue Terry, Atty. Gen., on brief), for appellee.

Present: All the Justices.


COMPTON, Justice.

In this criminal case, the dispositive question is whether the Court of Appeals erred in deciding that the trial court correctly refused a cautionary instruction offered by the defendant dealing with a prior inconsistent statement made by a witness, purportedly used to refresh the witness' recollection at trial.

In a jury trial in the Circuit Court of the City of Newport News, defendant Cynthia Ann Royal was convicted of first-degree murder...

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