Maxwell v. Commonwealth

On a former trial Edith Maxwell was convicted of murder in the first degree for killing her father, Trigg Maxwell. On review of the proceedings of that trial by this court, it *888was held, by a divided court, that the Commonwealth’s evidence was not sufficient to sustain a verdict of murder in the first degree, but it was sufficient to sustain a verdict of murder in the second degree. (See Maxwell v. Commonwealth, 167 Va. 490, 187 S. E. 506.) Another jury, on a second trial, found her guilty of murder in the second degree, and fixed her punishment at confinement in the penitentiary for a period…