McKoy v. Commonwealth
Supreme Court of Virginia
1Opinion of the CourtCochran, J.
William Harold McKoy was tried by the court and found guilty of the grand larceny of a color television set. From the judgment order sentencing him to confinement in the penitentiary for two and one-half years we granted him a writ of error to consider the question whether the television set was inadmissible in evidence as the product of an illegal search and seizure.
In the afternoon of October 22, 1969 Detective James Christmas, of the Norfolk Police Department Narcotics Squad, received a tele phone call from an informant known to him for more than a year, who reported that there was a 1967…
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2Cases cited11 opinions
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- Jones v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 1960
- Chambers v. MaroneySupreme Court of the United States · 1970
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