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MIDKIFF v. COM.

Record No. 941716.

462 S.E.2d 112 (1995)

Thomas Jefferson MIDKIFF v. COMMONWEALTH of Virginia.

Supreme Court of Virginia.

September 15, 1995.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Fred M. Werth, Galax (Jonathon M. Venzie, Independence, on briefs), for appellant.

Richard B. Smith, Assistant Attorney General (James S. Gilmore, III, Attorney General, on brief), for appellee.

Present: CARRICO, C.J., and COMPTON, STEPHENSON, WHITING, LACY, HASSELL and KEENAN, JJ.

LACY, Justice.

I.

Thomas Jefferson Midkiff was convicted by a jury in the Circuit Court of Carroll County of two counts of first degree murder and one count of arson. He received a sentence of life imprisonment for each murder conviction and 10 years' imprisonment and a fine of $15,000 for the arson conviction.

On appeal to the Court of Appeals, Midkiff challenged the admissibility of a confession he made during a police interrogation. Midkiff contended...

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