Roberts v. Commonwealth

Indicted for grand larceny, the defendant, William Walker Roberts, was convicted by a jury of the lesser-included oifense of receiving stolen property. In accordance with the jury’s verdict, the trial court sentenced the defendant to serve twenty years in the state penitentiary. We granted the defendant an appeal limited to assignments of error alleging that the trial court erred:

I. In failing to require the Commonwealth’s Attorney, in response to a motion filed pursuant to Code § 18.2-111, to designate in writing the statute upon which the Commonwealth intended to rely in seeking a…