BURLILE v. COMMONWEALTH

Record No. 002003.

544 S.E.2d 360 (2001)

Christopher Allen BURLILE v. COMMONWEALTH of Virginia.

Supreme Court of Virginia.

April 20, 2001.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

S. Jane Chittom (Public Defender Commission, on brief), for appellant.

Pamela A. Rumpz, Assistant Attorney General (Mark L. Earley, Attorney General, on brief), for appellee.

Present: All the Justices.


KOONTZ, Justice.

In this appeal, we consider whether the Court of Appeals erred in holding the trial court, the Circuit Court for the City of Richmond, properly refused to instruct the jury that in order to convict a defendant of capital murder in "[t]he willful, deliberate, and premeditated killing of more than one person within a three-year period" in violation of Code § 18.2-31(8), it is necessary that the jury find the defendant was a principal in the first...

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