Wagner v. Commonwealth

On Sunday morning, August 4, 1940, at about 2:15 a. m., James Cridlin was killed in a three-car collision on U. S. Highway No. 60, leading from Richmond to Newport News. This accident occurred about one mile east of Seven Pines in Henrico county and about four miles west of Bottoms *389Bridge. The road itself was a three-lane paved one with pavement 21 feet wide.

For this homicide Andrew Wagner was indicted. The indictment charges that he “unlawfully and feloniously did kill and slay one James Cridlin.” A jury found him guilty “as charged in the indictment” and fixed his punishment at three years…