Lewis v. Commonwealth

Thomas Elmo Lewis was tried by the court and found guilty of involuntary manslaughter. From the judgment order sentencing him to the Bureau of Corrections Field Unit for a period of 12 months we granted him a writ of error. '

The sole question is whether the evidence was sufficient to sustain the conviction.

Shortly after 5:00 p.m. on Saturday, May 17, 1969, a 1968 Volkswagen being operated by Lewis in a westerly direction on West Broad Street in the City of Richmond struck and fatally injured a pedestrian, Buck Burchett. Lewis did not stop after the accident. The next day he turned himself in…