BELLINGER v. COM.

Record No. 0845-95-1.

477 S.E.2d 779 (1996)

23 Va. App. 471

John Dobbs BELLINGER v. COMMONWEALTH of Virginia.

Court of Appeals of Virginia, Norfolk.

November 19, 1996.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Gerard T. Schafer, Virginia Beach (J. Russell Fentress, IV, Norfolk; Schafer & Russo, Virginia Beach; Goss, Meier, Fentress & Gutterman, Norfolk, on brief), for appellant.

Margaret Ann B. Walker, Assistant Attorney General (James S. Gilmore, III, Attorney General, on brief), for appellee.

Present: BAKER, WILLIS and OVERTON, JJ.


WILLIS, Judge.

John Dobbs Bellinger was convicted in a bifurcated jury trial of voluntary manslaughter and was sentenced in accordance with the jury's verdict to serve ten years in the penitentiary. On appeal, he contends that the trial court erred in admitting into evidence, at the sentencing phase of his trial, three disposition records for bad check offenses, because they did not constitute "record[s] of conviction[s]" admissible under Code § 19.2-295.1. We...

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