Jenkins v. Commonwealth

After waiving trial by jury, William Joe Jenkins (Jenkins or defendant) was tried and convicted by the trial court of involuntary manslaughter, Code §§ 18.2-30, -36, and of failing to stop at the scene of an accident when the vehicle he was operating was involved in an accident in which a person was killed or injured, Code §§ 46.1-176, -177, commonly referred to as “hit and run”. Defendant was sentenced to serve a term of two years in the state penitentiary on each conviction.

By this appeal defendant challenges: (1) the trial court’s denial, after conviction but prior to pronouncing sentence,…