Crockett v. Commonwealth

Louis Crockett shot and killed Clifton Ward in the town of Urbanna. He was indicted, tried and convicted of murder in the first degree and sentenced to the penitentiary for the term of his life.

The accused does not challenge the sufficiency of the evidence to sustain the verdict but relies entirely upon certain alleged errors of law which he claims were made by the court during the progress of his trial. However, in order to understand the points he relies upon, the facts must be related.

For the past ten or twelve years Crockett had been employed by Mr. George Richardson of Richmond as…