Gibson v. Commonwealth

The defendant, Theodore Roosevelt Gibson, Jr., was indicted for the murders of his wife, Marian J. Gibson, and of his father-in-law, Maryland Elmore Coley. Tried by a jury upon his pleas of not guilty, the defendant was convicted of murder of the first degree for the death of his wife, with punishment fixed at life imprisonment, and of murder of the second degree for the death of his father-in-law, with punishment fixed at twenty years imprisonment. The trial court approved the convictions and imposed the sentences fixed by the jury.

At trial, the defendant challenged the sufficiency of the…