Mendoza v. Commonwealth
Supreme Court of Virginia
The opinion states the case.
1Opinion of the CourtHudgins, C. J.
This writ of error brings under review a verdict and judgment sentencing Alvania Mendoza, hereinafter designated the accused, to three years confinement in the penitentiary for producing an abortion on Villis Lee Green.
The accused’s first contention is that the lower court committed reversible error in refusing to strike the evidence or to set aside the verdict on the ground that the Commonwealth failed to prove the corpus delicti.
Villis Lee Green, a married woman, died on August 22, 1956. Her body was exhumed on August 29, 1956, and an autopsy performed by Doctors Charles O. Barclay, Jr. and…
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