Legal Opinion
Watkins v. Commonwealth
Supreme Court of Virginia
Decided June 14, 1985No. Record 841551; Record 841913PublishedCited by 129 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtCochran, J.
A jury found Johnny Watkins, Jr. (Watkins), guilty of the capital murder of Betty Jean Barker on November 14, 1983, in the commission of robbery while armed with a deadly weapon. The jury also found Watkins guilty of the robbery itself and use of a firearm in the commission of a felony and fixed his punishment for these two offenses at confinement in the penitentiary for life and for two years, respectively. In the bifurcated proceeding mandated by Code §§ 19.2-264.3 and -264.4, the jury fixed Watkins’s punishment for capital murder at death, based upon findings of Watkins’s future…
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