BURNLEY v. COMMONWEALTH


158 S.E.2d 108 (1967)

208 Va. 356

Robert Thomas BURNLEY v. COMMONWEALTH of Virginia.

Supreme Court of Appeals of Virginia.

December 4, 1967.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Richard H. Barrick, Charlottesville (Wingfield, Barrick & St. John, Charlottesville, on brief), for plaintiff in error.

D. Gardiner Tyler, Asst. Atty. Gen. (Robert Y. Button, Atty. Gen., on brief), for defendant in error.

Before EGGLESTON, C. J., and BUCHANAN, SNEAD, I'ANSON and GORDON, JJ.


SNEAD, Justice.

Robert Thomas Burnley, defendant, was tried in the Corporation Court of the City of Charlottesville on an indictment charging him with rape. The jury found him guilty of the offense and fixed his punishment at confinement in the State penitentiary for a period of twenty years. On August 18, 1966, judgment was entered in accordance with the verdict. We granted Burnley a writ of error to that judgment.

In his assignments of error relied upon...

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