Legal Opinion
Johnson v. Commonwealth
Supreme Court of Virginia
Decided January 15, 1968No. Record 6696PublishedCited by 15 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtBuchanan, J.
A few minutes after ten o’clock of the evening of November 15, 1965, Mrs. Shirley Hall Healy was shot and killed by a man who forced his way into her automobile as she stopped at the intersection of Duval avenue and Main street, Route 17, in the town of Gloucester, in Gloucester county.
The defendant, Barry Clinton Johnson, was indicted for the killing. He was tried by a jury which found him guilty of murder in the first degree and fixed his punishment at death. He was sentenced in accordance with the verdict and we granted a writ of error to consider his assignments of error. He contends here…
2Cases cited14 opinions
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- Giaccio v. PennsylvaniaSupreme Court of the United States · 1965
- Andres v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 1948
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3Cited by15 opinions
- McGautha v. CaliforniaSupreme Court of the United States · 1971
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- Snider v. CoxSupreme Court of Virginia · 1971
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