KUCKENBECKER v. COMMONWEALTH


101 S.E.2d 523 (1958)

199 Va. 619

James Wilson KUCKENBECKER v. COMMONWEALTH of Virginia.

Supreme Court of Appeals of Virginia.

January 20, 1958.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Richard B. Kellam, Norfolk (P. W. Ackiss, Virginia Beach, Kellam & Kellam, Norfolk, on brief), for plaintiff in error.

Reno S. Harp, III, Asst. Atty. Gen. (Kenneth C. Patty, Atty. Gen., on brief), for defendant in error.

Before HUDGINS, C. J., and EGGLESTON, SPRATLEY, BUCHANAN, MILLER, WHITTLE and SNEAD, JJ.


EGGLESTON, Justice.

James Wilson Kuckenbecker, indicted for the murder of his father, Otto Kuckenbecker, was tried by a jury which found him guilty of voluntary manslaughter and fixed his punishment at confinement in the penitentiary for five years. To review the judgment entered upon the verdict we granted a writ of error.

In his assignments of error the accused attacks the sufficiency of the evidence to sustain the verdict, the admissibility of certain evidence...

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