Rhodes v. Commonwealth

Senior Justice Poff

delivered the opinion of the Court.

A jury convicted Mrs. Thipsukon Arnold Rhodes of first degree murder of her infant daughter, Kristie Lee Rhodes, as charged in the indictment. The Circuit Court of the City of Lynchburg en tered judgment confirming the verdict and imposing the sentence of 20 years in the penitentiary as fixed by the jury.

Assigning multiple errors, the defendant filed a petition for appeal in the Court of Appeals. By its order entered May 11, 1987, the Court of Appeals granted the appeal “limited to the consideration of the question whether the evidence…