COM. v. SMITH

Record No. 991244.

529 S.E.2d 78 (2000)

COMMONWEALTH of Virginia v. Willard SMITH.

Supreme Court of Virginia.

April 21, 2000.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Donald E. Jeffrey, III, Assistant Attorney General (Mark L. Earley, Attorney General, on brief), for appellant.

Robert P. Geary, Richmond, for appellee.

Present: CARRICO, C.J., LACY, HASSELL, KEENAN, KOONTZ, KINSER, JJ., and POFF, Senior Justice.


POFF, Senior Justice.

The sole issue framed by the parties to this appeal is whether the evidence adduced at trial was sufficient to identify the accused as the criminal agent in the commission of a felony.

In a bench trial conducted in the Circuit Court of the City of Richmond, Willard Smith was convicted of malicious wounding as defined in Code § 18.2-51.* A panel of the Court of Appeals of Virginia reversed the judgment...

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