Lovelace v. Commonwealth

Floyd Ural Lovelace was arrested on August 22, 1963, in Pittsylvania county, Virginia, on a warrant which charged him with the “possession of a stolen automobile.” After a preliminary hearing in the county court of Pittsylvania county, the case was certified to the grand jury of the circuit court of that county. The grand jury, on November 4, 1963, returned an indictment against Lovelace which charged that he, “on the 12th day of August in the year 1963, in said county,, did unlawfully and feloniously steal, take and carry away one 1955 Chevrolet automobile of the value of $1,000.00, * * *…