Thomas v. Commonwealth

MILLIKEN, Judge.

This is an appeal from the conviction of appellant, Charles Edward Thomas, of voluntary manslaughter and as an habitual criminal.

On June 26, 1965, appellant, age 28, cut and mortally wounded William Boyd Reynolds with a knife while they were engaged in a fight near a beer tavern in Richmond.

This appeal is predicated on several grounds, the first of which is that the evidence of appellant’s convictions of prior felonies should not have been injected into his trial for voluntary manslaughter. Appellant contends that he should have been tried solely on the merits of the…