Fish v. Commonwealth

Vernon Lee Fish, the defendant, was convicted by the trial court, sitting without a jury, of two offenses of malicious wounding (Code, § 18.1-65), which were tried together. He was sentenced to serve a term of three years in the penitentiary upon each conviction, the sentences to run concurrently. He was granted writs of error to the final judgments of conviction.

The defendant’s convictions arose out of an occurrence which took place on a public street in the city of Portsmouth on the night of June 20, 1966. The defendant, while occupying the rear seat of an automobile, twice fired a shotgun…