BOYD v. COM.

Record No. 870821.

374 S.E.2d 301 (1988)

Ivy Thomas BOYD v. COMMONWEALTH of Virginia.

Supreme Court of Virginia.

November 18, 1988.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

John E. Zydron (Kevin L. Hubbard, Bryan and Zydron, Chesapeake, on brief), for appellant.

Robert B. Condon, Asst. Atty. Gen. (Mary Sue Terry, Atty. Gen., on brief), for appellee.

Present: CARRICO, C.J., POFF, COMPTON, STEPHENSON, RUSSELL and THOMAS, JJ., and GORDON, Retired Justice.


COMPTON, Justice.

The answer to the question presented in this criminal appeal will determine to what extent the General Assembly changed the common law with the 1985 enactment of Code § 18.2-23.1, dealing with a prohibition against convictions for both a completed substantive offense and an underlying conspiracy.

In April 1985, defendant Ivy Thomas Boyd was charged in the Circuit Court of the City of Chesapeake in separate indictments with distribution...

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