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SAUNDERS v. COM.

Record No. 901488.

406 S.E.2d 39 (1991)

William Ira SAUNDERS v. COMMONWEALTH of Virginia.

Supreme Court of Virginia.

June 7, 1991.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Edward M. Stowe (William H. Smith, Smith & Stowe, on brief), Danville, for appellant.

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

Present: CARRICO, C.J., COMPTON, STEPHENSON, RUSSELL, WHITING and HASSELL, JJ., and POFF, Senior Justice.

POFF, Senior Justice.

In this appeal, we review a capital murder conviction and a judgment imposing a death penalty upon William Ira Saunders.

I. PROCEEDINGS

Upon his motion, the Commonwealth and the court concurring, Saunders was tried by the court without a jury upon indictments charging capital murder, robbery, and use of a firearm in the commission of capital murder. Invoking the grounds defined in Code § 18.2-31(4), the capital murder indictment...

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