ROGERS v. COM.

Record Nos. 910479, 910480.

410 S.E.2d 621 (1991)

Rocky Dale ROGERS v. COMMONWEALTH of Virginia.

Supreme Court of Virginia.

November 8, 1991.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Ronald W. Vaught, Hot Springs, Anthony F. Anderson, Roanoke (Melissa W. Friedman, Roanoke, Parks & Vaught, Hot Springs on brief), for appellant.

Oliver L. Norrell, III, Asst. Atty. Gen. (Mary Sue Terry, Atty. Gen., on brief), for appellee.

Present: All the Justices.


COMPTON, Justice.

On January 9, 1990, Dorothy H. Balsey, a 74-year-old widow, was brutally attacked in her home in the City of Covington. The victim died the next day from stab wounds to her chest and back combined with "blunt force" injuries to her head sustained during the attack.

Within a month, appellant Rocky Dale Rogers, age 24, was arrested. Subsequently, he was indicted for the following crimes arising from the attack: statutory burglary, Code §...

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