Legal Opinion

Jones v. Commonwealth

Supreme Court of Virginia

Decided October 13, 1952No. Record 4023Published

The opinion states the case.

1Opinion of the Court 1

194 Va. 273 (1952)

NEVA JONES

v.

COMMONWEALTH OF VIRGINIA.

Record No. 4023.

Supreme Court of Virginia.

October 13, 1952.

Z. V. Johnson, Jr. and Joseph M. Winston, Jr., for the plaintiff in error.

J. Lindsay Almond, Jr., Attorney General, and Frederick T. Gray, Assistant Attorney General, for the defendant in error.

Present, Eggleston, Spratley, Buchanan, Miller, Smith and Whittle, JJ.

1. Defendant was on trial for the murder of his wife and after the jury had deliberated for some time, they asked the court if the defendant was given a long or a life term would they have any assurance that he would not…

Also in this document: Concurrence; Opinion of the Court · Buchanan.

2Cases cited14 opinions

  1. Lovely v. United StatesCourt of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit · 1948
  2. Jones v. CommonwealthSupreme Court of Virginia · 1952
  3. Coward v. CommonwealthSupreme Court of Virginia · 1935
  4. Commonwealth v. JohnsonSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1951
  5. State v. CarrollWyoming Supreme Court · 1937

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