Taylor v. Commonwealth

SENIOR JUSTICE COMPTON

delivered the opinion of the Court.

This criminal appeal involves accomplice liability arising from the alleged abduction by a natural father of his illegitimate child. The question presented is whether the Court of Appeals of Virginia erred *686in affirming the trial court’s judgment that the evidence was sufficient to convict.

In 1997, defendant Tomika T. Taylor was found guilty in a bench trial in the Circuit Court of Greensville County of abduction in violation of Code § 18.2-47 as a principal in the second degree, Code § 18.2-18. She was sentenced to eight years’…