Cotton v. Commonwealth

UPON REHEARING EN BANC

By opinion issued December 6, 1994, Cotton v. Commonwealth, 19 Va.App. 306, 451 S.E.2d 673 (1994), we reversed and remanded Joseph Cotton, Jr.’s convictions of robbery and use of a firearm in the commission of robbery. On petition of the Commonwealth, we granted rehearing en banc on two questions: (1) whether the trial court properly admitted the victim’s statement, made during the robbery, that she knew the robber, and (2) whether the trial court properly excluded from evidence a plastic bag that contained a palm print of an unidentified person other than Cotton. On…