Whitley v. State

HOWELL, CHARLES COOK, Jr., Associate Judge.

Red has ever been the color of flamboyant significance; and has been cast in a variety of roles.

“Red” in our glorious national emblem “is for valor”, acknowledges Charles' Sumner in his November 19, 1867, “Are We a Nation ?”

Red the color of the fox chased in Mother England and through Virginia’s verdant countryside; and the color of “The setters from Kerry, and Cork and Kildaire . . . They’re red and they’re rare! 1

Red the color of the “morn”, in Shakespeare’s Venus and Adonis, “that ever yet betoken’d wrack to the seaman, tempest to the field”.

And…