BROWN v. COM.

Record No. 800738.

279 S.E.2d 142 (1981)

Tommy Gene BROWN v. COMMONWEALTH of Virginia.

Supreme Court of Virginia.

June 12, 1981.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

William P. Sheffield, Abingdon, for appellant.

Robert E. Bradenham, II, Asst. Atty. Gen. (Marshall Coleman, Atty. Gen., on brief), for appellee.

Before CARRICO, C. J., and HARRISON, COCHRAN, POFF, COMPTON, THOMPSON and STEPHENSON, JJ.


HARRISON, Justice.

The question here is whether Tommy Gene Brown may be convicted of assault and battery under an indictment charging attempted murder, and also be convicted of an unlawful wounding of the same victim under an indictment charging malicious wounding, when both prosecutions arose out of the same incident.

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