Luck v. Commonwealth

COLE, Senior Judge.

Appellant, Michael Wayne Luck, was tried by a Spotsylvania County jury for the first degree murder of William Smith (Smith), the felonious use of a firearm in the murder of Smith, and the robbery of Smith. The jury found appellant guilty of the charged offenses. The trial judge sentenced appellant, in accordance with the jury’s verdict, to sixty-eight years of imprisonment.

On appeal, appellant challenges the trial judge’s refusal to admit evidence of Smith’s prior convictions of petit larceny and the reckless handling of a firearm. 1 Finding no reversible error, we affirm.

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