Turman v. Com.

OPINION BY Chief Justice LEROY R. HASSELL, SR.

I

In this appeal from a judgment of the Court of Appeals affirming convictions for rape and sexual battery, we consider whether a circuit court erred by instructing a jury that it could consider a defendant's purported flight from the location of alleged crimes.

II

A grand jury in Fairfax County indicted Myron J. Turman for forcible oral sodomy in violation of Code § 18.2-67.1, rape in violation of Code § 18.2-61, and forcible anal sodomy in violation of Code § 18.2-67.1. At the conclusion of the Commonwealth's evidence in a jury trial in Fairfax…