Legal Opinion

Fisher v. Commonwealth

Court of Appeals of Virginia

Decided June 8, 1993No. Record No. 1283-91-1PublishedCited by 38 opinions

1Opinion of the Court

Opinion

WILLIS, J.

On appeal from his jury trial conviction of second degree murder of his wife, Kathryn Ann Youngs Fisher (Kay), Herbert Garrison Fisher contends that the trial court erred (1) when it denied his motions to strike the Commonwealth’s evidence and to set aside the jury verdict because the prosecution had failed to prove the corpus delicti, (2) when it denied his motion for a change of venue, but ordered the jury summoned from Lancaster County to trial in Gloucester County, (3) when it failed to ensure that the jury panel list had been made available to counsel forty-eight…

2Cases cited15 opinions

  1. Stamper v. CommonwealthSupreme Court of Virginia · 1979
  2. Traverso v. CommonwealthCourt of Appeals of Virginia · 1988
  3. Deboue v. LouisianaSupreme Court of the United States · 1990
  4. Fisher v. CommonwealthSupreme Court of Virginia · 1988
  5. Epperly v. CommonwealthSupreme Court of Virginia · 1982

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3Cited by38 opinions

  1. Ohree v. CommonwealthCourt of Appeals of Virginia · 1998
  2. Herbert G. Fisher v. Charles E. King Conrad Spangler, Director, Division of Mineral MiningCourt of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit · 2000
  3. Williams v. CommonwealthCourt of Appeals of Virginia · 2010
  4. Mayr v. OsborneSupreme Court of Virginia · 2017
  5. Schwartz v. CommonwealthCourt of Appeals of Virginia · 2003

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