Bryan v. Commonwealth
Supreme Court of Virginia
Error to a judgment of the Circuit Court of Botetourt county.
1Opinion of the Court
Kelly, P.,
delivered the opinion of the court.
This case is here upon a writ of error to a judgment of the Circuit Court of Botetourt county, sentencing the defendant, E. B. Bryan, to a term of twenty years in the *712penitentiary upon a conviction of murder in the second degree.
About noon of the 28th day of October, 1920, Bryan walked into the office of the Virginia Western Power Company, in the town of Buchanan, and, practically without warning, shot to death W. F. Headrick, an electrician employed by that company.
The evidence produced by the Commonwealth, standing alone, makes a case of murder…
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