Goode v. Commonwealth

McCLANAHAN, Judge.

In a bench trial, Royalle Deshavon Goode was convicted of attempted robbery, in violation of Code §§ 18.2-26 and 18.2-58, and aggravated malicious wounding, in violation of Code § 18.2-51.2. 1 On appeal, Goode challenges the sufficiency of the evidence for these two convictions. For the following reasons, we affirm both convictions.

BACKGROUND

On appeal, we review the evidence in the “light most favorable” to the Commonwealth. Commonwealth v. Hudson, 265 Va. 505, 514, 578 S.E.2d 781, 786 (2003) (citations omitted). That principle requires us to “discard the evidence of the…