Webb v. Commonwealth

D. E. Webb was indicted and tried in the Circuit Court of Pittsylvania county for the murder of Harold Vaden* The jury found him guilty of murder in the second degree, and fixed his punishment at confinement in the penitentiary for ten years, and sentence was pronounced accordingly.

The homicide occurred on February 16, 1928. It appears from the record that the deceased, a young man thirty-three years of age, six. feet, two or three inches tall and weighing approximately one hundred and seventy pounds, was, at the time of the homicide, a resident of the village of Gretna. He and his wife lived…