SMITH v. COMMONWEALTH

Record No. 1058-16-2.

808 S.E.2d 848 (2018)

68 Va. App. 399

Laurence Maria SMITH, s/k/a Laurence Marie Smith v. COMMONWEALTH of Virginia.

Court of Appeals of Virginia, Richmond.

January 16, 2018.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Ronald Hur , Senior Assistant Public Defender ( Amr A. Ahmed , Assistant Public Defender, on brief), for appellant.

Victoria L. Johnson , Assistant Attorney General ( Mark R. Herring , Attorney General, on brief), for appellee.

Present: Judges Humphreys, Beales and Alston.


On June 15, 2015, the grand jury of Spotsylvania County indicted Laurence Maria Smith ("appellant") for first-degree murder in violation of Code § 18.2-32 for the murder of her husband, Sean Smith ("victim"). On December 17, 2015, following a four-day trial, a jury convicted appellant of voluntary manslaughter...

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