Taylor v. Commonwealth

Emmett Lee Taylor was convicted in the court below of robbery and sentenced to serve five years in the penitentiary. We granted him a writ of error, and we are concerned here with two issues—the admissibility of an oral statement made by Taylor following his arrest, and whether the venue of the crime was established to be in Hanover County.

On the evening of September 11, 1969 Paul Snell was driving alone in Richmond when four men in another vehicle invited him to join them. Snell testified that he was lonely and therefore decided to park his vehicle and accept the invitation extended by the…