Frederick B. Smallwood v. Commonwealth

COURT OF APPEALS OF VIRGINIA Present: Chief Judge Fitzpatrick, Judges Felton and Kelsey Argued at Chesapeake, Virginia FREDERICK B. SMALLWOOD MEMORANDUM OPINION* BY v. Record No. 3190-03-1 JUDGE WALTER S. FELTON, JR. MAY 17, 2005 COMMONWEALTH OF VIRGINIA FROM THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE CITY OF HAMPTON Wilford Taylor, Jr., Judge David B. Hargett (Hargett & Watson, PLC, on brief), for appellant. Paul C. Galanides, Assistant Attorney General (Jerry W. Kilgore, Attorney General, on brief), for appellee. Frederick B. Smallwood (appellant) was convicted by a jury of the first-degree murder of his…