Legal Opinion

Raymond Thomas Council v. Commonwealth

Supreme Court of Virginia

Decided September 4, 1956Published

The opinion states the case.

1Opinion of the Court 1

198 Va. 288 (1956)

RAYMOND THOMAS COUNCIL

v.

COMMONWEALTH OF VIRGINIA.

Supreme Court of Virginia.

September 4, 1956.

W. A. Hall, Jr., for the plaintiff in error.

C. F. Hicks, Assistant Attorney General, (J. Lindsay Almond, Jr., Attorney General, on brief), for the defendant in error.

Present, All the Justices.

1. Appellant was sentenced for rape in 1951. The order then entered reciting the verdict of the jury listed the names of eleven jurors only. In 1955, in connection with a habeas corpus proceeding begun by appellant, the court entered a nunc pro tunc order amending the prior order to show also…

Also in this document: Opinion of the Court · Whittle; Dissent.

2Cases cited22 opinions

  1. In Re WightSupreme Court of the United States · 1890
  2. Gagnon v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 1904
  3. Barnes v. CommonwealthSupreme Court of Virginia · 1895
  4. Raymond Thomas Council v. CommonwealthSupreme Court of Virginia · 1956
  5. Walker v. CommonwealthSupreme Court of Virginia · 1926

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