Randolph v. Commonwealth

The defendant, Randolph, shot and killed Richard Manuel Wood. On his trial before a jury he was convicted of second-degree murder and sentenced to ten years in the penitentiary. He claims first that the evidence was insufficient to go to the jury or to support the verdict.

About five o’clock in the morning of June 7, 1948, the police were called to No. 1216 North 2nd Street, in Richmond, where the defendant lived. On arrival the defendant, who was standing in front of the house, told them he had shot somebody inside of the house. There they found the body of Wood, who had been killed by a…