Orange v. Commonwealth
Supreme Court of Virginia
The opinion states the case.
1Opinion of the CourtBuchanan, J.
Myrtle Stoots Orange, referred to herein as defendant, has been convicted of second-degree murder and sentenced to serve fifteen years in the penitentiary for the killing of Charles Lewis McFall. The evidence against her is circumstantial and she here challenges its sufficiency to support the verdict, as well as certain rulings of the trial court in admitting and rejecting evidence and in giving and refusing instructions.
She was indicted February 21, 1949, jointly with her brother, Frank Stoots, and her nephew, LeRoy Stoots. * On her statement that she was without means to employ counsel, the…
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