Legal Opinion
Land v. Commonwealth
Supreme Court of Virginia
Decided September 4, 1970No. Record 7224 and 7225PublishedCited by 43 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtCochran, J.
Peter Edward Land was tried and convicted by a jury upon two indictments charging him with the rape and murder of Mrs. Carol J. Dorschel. The verdict, fixing his punishment at life imprisonment upon each indictment, was approved by the trial court which sentenced Land accordingly. We granted him a writ of error to the judgment.
On December 18, 1967, the body of Mrs. Dorschel, who had last been seen alive shortly after she finished work at 10 p.m. on December 11, 1967, was found in a tidal ditch off Virginia Beach Boulevard near London Bridge. An autopsy revealed that she had died of…
2Cases cited13 opinions
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- Gloria Jean Narro v. United StatesCourt of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit · 1966
- Thompson v. CommonwealthSupreme Court of Virginia · 1952
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3Cited by43 opinions
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- United States v. Donald Roy CrispCourt of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit · 1971
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