Bolden v. Commonwealth

D. ARTHUR KELSEY, Judge.

Baraka Bolden appeals his convictions on various drug and weapons charges. He argues the trial court abused its discretion in continuing the trial at the Commonwealth’s request and in finding the evidence of guilt sufficient to convict. Concluding the trial court erred in neither respect, we affirm.

I

Under settled principles, we review the evidence in the “light most favorable” to the Commonwealth. Commonwealth v. Hudson, 265 Va. 505, 514, 578 S.E.2d 781, 786 (2003). That principle requires us to “discard the evidence of the accused in conflict with that of the…