Lloyd v. Commonwealth

In Halifax county in the afternoon of September 6, 1945, Richard James Lloyd, the petitioner here, stabbed and killed Robert Lee Cook; the time was seven-thirty, and it was still light. Lloyd was indicted for murder and tried by a jury which found him guilty of murder in the second degree and fixed his punishment at ten years in the State penitentiary. That verdict was approved by the presiding judge, and it is now before us on a writ of error.

Lloyd at that time was about thirty-three years old, five feet six inches in height, and weighed about 120 pounds. Cook was two or three years older,…