Buckingham v. State

OPINION

DUNCAN, Judge.

The defendant, Lolis Alexander Buckingham, was convicted in the Bedford County Circuit Court of murder in the second degree and received a penitentiary sentence of 99 years.

In this appeal, the defendant makes eight assignments of error, the first of which challenges the legal sufficiency of the convicting evidence. In particular, the defendant maintains that the only evidence of his guilt was his extra-judicial confession which he alleges was uncorroborated.

The evidence showed that between 8:30 p. m. and 8:45 p. m., on November 16, 1974, the deceased, Raymond Sudberry,…