George Haywood Bell v. Commonwealth

COURT OF APPEALS OF VIRGINIA Present: Judges Baker, Bray and Overton Argued at Norfolk, Virginia GEORGE HAYWOOD BELL MEMORANDUM OPINION * BY v. Record No. 0799-95-1 JUDGE NELSON T. OVERTON JUNE 11, 1996 COMMONWEALTH OF VIRGINIA FROM THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE CITY OF NORFOLK Thomas R. McNamara, Judge B. Cullen Gibson for appellant. Richard H. Rizk, Assistant Attorney General (James S. Gilmore, III, Attorney General, on brief), for appellee. George Bell appealed his conviction of burglary on the ground that his preliminary hearing was held in the general district court instead of the juvenile…