Land v. Commonwealth

GRAVES, Justice.

In 1972, Appellant, Michael A. Land, was convicted and sentenced to life imprisonment for one count of murder, life without the possibility of parole on each of two counts of rape, twenty-one years on each of two counts of shooting with the intent to kill, and eighteen years for one count of armed robbery.

The record reveals the disturbing sequence of events which ultimately led to Appellant’s convictions. On the evening of September 4, 1971, while armed with a shotgun, Appellant forced Connie Lou Jones and Edwin Cochran Dorsey into his vehicle. He made Jones drive while he…