Smith v. Commonwealth
Supreme Court of Virginia
The opinion states the case.
1Opinion of the CourtBuchanan, J.
The defendant, Jacob Jeffrey Smith, has been sentenced to serve fifty years in the penitentiary for killing Eobert West, pursuant to the verdict of a jury finding him guilty of murder in the first degree. His main assignment of error is that there was not sufficient evidence to support the verdict. Two other assignments, on the grounds of after-discovered evidence and the incompetence of a juror, were not relied on in argument.
West was killed about 9:20 on the night of June 16,1949, by a bullet fired through the pane of a window and into his back as he stood in front of a refrigerator in the…
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