Legal Opinion
Brown v. Commonwealth
Supreme Court of Virginia
Decided June 18, 1982No. Record 810647Published
1Opinion of the Court 1
223 Va. 601 (1982)
ALVIN EDWARD DOUGLAS BROWN
v.
COMMONWEALTH OF VIRGINIA
Record No. 810647.
Supreme Court of Virginia.
June 18, 1982.
Robert E. Evans (Kizer, Phillips & Petty, on brief), for appellant.
Jerry P. Slonaker, Assistant Attorney General (Gerald L. Baliles, Attorney General, on brief), for appellee.
Present: All the Justices.
Under Code | 19.2-271.2 where one spouse is indicted for an offense against the other and also an offense against a third party, both offenses arising from a common criminal enterprise, the witness-spouse can testify against the defendant-spouse on both charges.
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- Trammel v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 1980
- State v. BrileySupreme Court of New Jersey · 1969
- State v. ThompsonWashington Supreme Court · 1977
- CA JONES v. CommonwealthSupreme Court of Virginia · 1976
- Brown v. CommonwealthSupreme Court of Virginia · 1982
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