Tolley v. Commonwealth

On June 4, 1974, James Tolley was tried by the court, sitting without a jury, on two indictments charging him with the abduction 1 and murder of Sandra Harrell Jones. At the conclusion of the Commonwealth’s evidence the trial court overruled Tolley’s motion to strike the evidence as to abduction but sustained the motion as to murder on the ground that the Commonwealth had failed to prove that the murder had been committed in Southampton County. At the conclusion of all the evidence the trial court found Tolley guilty of abduction as charged. Tolley has appealed the judgment order entered on…