Saunders v. Commonwealth

Upon his trial for burglary and grand larceny, Marvin Fortune Saunders, Jr., the defendant, was convicted by the jury, and his punishment was fixed at three years in the penitentiary on each charge. To the final order approving the verdicts and imposing the sentences, the defendant was granted writs of error.

The sufficiency of the evidence to convict is not questioned on appeal, so a detailed narrative is not necessary. Suffice to say, it was shown that on January 13 or 14, 1969, the defendant and two accomplices traveled from their homes in Washington, D. C., to Wingina in Nelson County,…