Legal Opinion
Jones v. Commonwealth
Supreme Court of Virginia
Decided January 13, 1978No. Record 770640PublishedCited by 67 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtPoff, J.
The principal question on appeal, raised below on a motion to dismiss, is whether defendant’s conviction of grand larceny of an automobile following his conviction of robbery involving larceny of money offended the constitutional guarantees against double jeopardy, U.S. CONST, amend. V; Va. CONST, art. I, § 8, or the provisions of Code § 19.2-294 (Repl. Vol. 1975).
It appears from the evidence (the sufficiency of which is not challenged) that Roderick Cecil Jones, armed with a pistol, entered the office of a Holiday Inn Motel and forced Alton Cole, the clerk in charge, to give him the money in…
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