Legal Opinion

Cantrell v. Commonwealth

Supreme Court of Virginia

Decided April 26, 1985No. Record 840269Published

1Opinion of the Court

329 S.E.2d 22 (1985)

William Jeffery CANTRELL

v.

COMMONWEALTH of Virginia.

Record No. 840269.

Supreme Court of Virginia.

April 26, 1985.

John C. Lowe, Charlottesville (S. Strother Smith, III, Abingdon, Lowe & Jacobs, Ltd., Charlottesville, on brief), for appellant.

John H. McLees, Asst. Atty. Gen. (Gerald L. Baliles, Atty. Gen., on brief), for appellee.

Present: All the Justices.

RUSSELL, Justice.

After an earlier trial had ended in a hung jury, William Jeffery Cantrell was convicted of the first-degree murder of his wife, Judy, and of the use of a firearm in the commission of the murder. The second…

Also in this document: Concurring in part, dissenting in part.

2Cases cited31 opinions

  1. LeVasseur v. CommonwealthSupreme Court of Virginia · 1983
  2. Virginia Real Estate Commission v. BiasSupreme Court of Virginia · 1983
  3. State v. AtkinsWest Virginia Supreme Court · 1979
  4. Epperly v. CommonwealthSupreme Court of Virginia · 1982
  5. Willis Lansing Ganger v. C. C. Peyton, Superintendent of the Virginia State Penitentiary, Appellant(two Cases)Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit · 1967

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