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COM. v. SANDS

Record No. 010071.

553 S.E.2d 733 (2001)

262 Va. 724

COMMONWEALTH of Virginia, v. Victoria Shelton SANDS.

Supreme Court of Virginia.

November 2, 2001.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Richard B. Smith, Senior Asst. Atty. Gen. (Randolph A. Beales, Atty. Gen., on briefs), for appellant.

Phillip G. Gardner (R. Reid Young, III, Martinsville; Gardner, Barrow & Sharpe, on brief), for appellee.

Present All the Justices.

Opinion by Justice CYNTHIA D. KINSER.

A jury convicted the defendant, Victoria Shelton Sands, of the first degree murder of her husband, Thomas Lee Sands, and of the use of a firearm in the commission of murder. The Court of Appeals of Virginia, finding that the trial court erred in refusing to give the defendant's requested jury instruction on self-defense, reversed the convictions and remanded the case for a new trial. Sands v. Commonwealth,

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