YEATTS v. MURRAY

Record No. 940635.

455 S.E.2d 18 (1995)

Ronald Dale YEATTS v. Edward W. MURRAY, Director, Virginia Department of Corrections.

Supreme Court of Virginia.

March 3, 1995.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Gerald T. Zerkin, Richmond (Melanie A. Hopper, Robert Godfrey, Gerald T. Zerkin & Associates, on briefs), for appellant.

Robert H. Anderson, III, Asst. Atty. Gen. (James S. Gilmore, III, Atty. Gen., Kathleen B. Martin, Asst. Atty. Gen., on brief), for appellee.

Present: All the Justices.


HASSELL, Justice.

Ronald Dale Yeatts was convicted of the capital murder and robbery of Ruby Meeks Dodson in the Circuit Court of Pittsylvania County and sentenced to death. We affirmed the judgment of the circuit court in Yeatts v. Commonwealth, 242 Va. 121, 410 S.E.2d 254 (1991), cert. denied, 503 U.S. 946, 112 S.Ct. 1500, 117 L.Ed.2d 639 (1992).

Yeatts filed his petition for writ of habeas corpus in the...

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