Jarvis v. Commonwealth

JOHNSTONE, Justice.

On May 3, 1995, Timothy Orville Jarvis killed his wife Angela, with a lock blade knife. Angela was killed by a single stab wound to her throat. C.J., the couple’s three-and-a-half-year-old daughter, witnessed her mother’s death. A jury of his peers found Jarvis guilty of wanton murder. He was subsequently sentenced to thirty years in prison. He appeals to this Court as a matter of right. We affirm.

Jarvis raises a number of issues on appeal. While we agree with Jarvis on two of his assignments of error, we find that these errors were harmless both individually and…