Farnsworth v. Com.

In this appeal, we review a judgment of the Court of Appeals of Virginia affirming a circuit court judgment convicting Samuel L. Farnsworth of knowingly and intentionally possessing a firearm after being convicted of a felony in the Commonwealth or in any other state, in violation of Code § 18.2-308.2. Farnsworth v. Commonwealth, 43 Va.App. 490 , 599 S.E.2d 482 (2004). Farnsworth had been previously convicted of a felony, armed robbery, in West Virginia in 1979. Upon completing his sentence in 1985, he received a document from the West Virginia Department of Corrections stating, "Any and all…