Gray v. Commonwealth

SENIOR JUSTICE COMPTON

delivered the opinion of the Court.

Defendant Thomas Abram Gray, Sr., was found guilty by a jury in the Circuit Court of Botetourt County in July 1998 of conspiracy to murder one James M. Martin, Code §§ 18.2-22 and -32, and of attempted possession of an unregistered firearm muffler or silencer, Code §§ 18.2-308.6 and -26. Judgment was entered upon the verdicts, and defendant was sentenced to three years’ imprisonment for the conspiracy and to a fine of $2,500 for the other crime.

Upon defendant’s appeal to the Court of Appeals of Virginia, the judgments of conviction were…