Dobie v. Commonwealth
Supreme Court of Virginia
The opinion states the case.
1Opinion of the CourtBuchanan, J.
This is. an appeal from an order of the Circuit Court of Southampton county entered on March 10, 1956, refusing to set aside and annul an order of that court entered on November 11, 1955, finding the defendant, Lloyd Junius Dobie, alias, etc., guilty of rape, for which he was on December 6, 1955, sentenced to death.
At the May term, 1955, the grand jury of the county returned two indictments against the defendant, one charging him with robbery and the other with rape, both committed on February 8, 1955, against Lillian Vann Scott, forty-eight years old. The defendant entered a plea of guilty…
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