Canter v. Commonwealth

This case is before this court for the second time. Canter v. Commonwealth, 118 Va. 800, 88 S. E. 327.

Upon the previous record the Attorney-General and the assistant Attorney-General confessed error in this court, and the judgment condemning the accused to death for the murder of Maude Wilson was reversed. At that time it was said: “We have carefully examined the evidence and concur in the view expressed by the Attorney-General and his assistant, that it is inadequate to connect the prisoner with the crime with that degree of certainty required by the criminal law. of this Commonwealth.”

While…