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SKINNER v. COMMONWEALTH

183 S.E.2d 725 (1971)

212 Va. 260

Nicholas Lee SKINNER v. COMMONWEALTH of Virginia (two cases).

Supreme Court of Virginia.

October 11, 1971.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

William A. Young, Jr., Richmond (Aldine J. Coffman, Jr., Coffman & Coffman, Virginia Beach, on brief), for plaintiff in error.

James E. Kulp, Asst. Atty. Gen. (Andrew P. Miller, Atty. Gen., on brief), for defendant in error.

Before SNEAD, C. J., and I'ANSON, CARRICO, GORDON, HARRISON, COCHRAN and HARMAN, JJ.

I'ANSON, Justice.

Nicholas Lee Skinner, defendant, was found guilty by a jury on indictments charging rape and abduction. His punishment was fixed at life imprisonment on the rape charge and 20 years imprisonment on the abduction charge. The defendant was sentenced in accordance with the jury's verdicts, and he is here on writs of error to the judgments.

Defendant contends that the trial court erred (1) in excluding as evidence the results of a lie detector...

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