Hicks v. Commonwealth

At the September term, 1940, of the Hustings Court of the City of Portsmouth a special grand jury returned into court an indictment in which it was charged that Evelyn Hicks in January of that year did by violence to the person of one Landon McCormick rob him of $9'.30. On the 24th day of September, 1940', she was tried and found guilty, the jury’s verdict being that she should be confined in the penitentiary for a term of eight years. That verdict the court confirmed.

Our statute provides that robbery by violence to the person shall be punished with death, or confinement in the penitentiary…