Davis v. Commonwealth

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• holding that “where an indictment is returned for an alleged violation of Code § 18.2-53.1, the underlying felony must be proved beyond a reasonable doubt,” but need not be “separately indict[ed] and prosecute[d]”
• holding that a defendant may be convicted under Code § 18.2-53.1 if the Commonwealth proved beyond a reasonable doubt that the underlying felony occurred and that there was a use or display of a firearm while committing the underlying felony
• “There is no language in the statute which suggests that the legislature intended that an accused must be charged and prosecuted for the underlying felony.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

11 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Kauffmann v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 1989-07-11· cited 125×
• Gaines v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 2003-01-14· cited 95×
• Wolfe v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 1988-08-02· cited 57×
• Gilliam v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 1996-01-11· cited 56×
• Strohecker v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 1996-09-24· cited 22×
• Bowling v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 1991-04-02· cited 15×
• Dalton v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 1998-05-19· cited 7×
• Awkard v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 1995-02-14· cited 5×
• Councill v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 2002-03-12· cited 2×
• Commonwealth v. Davis
  Loudoun County Circuit Court· 1987-12-11
• Commonwealth v. White
  Alexandria County Circuit Court· 1998-08-21

Cites

5 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Ansell v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1979-01-12· cited 110×
• Evans v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1975-03-10· cited 73×
• Bradshaw v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1984-11-30· cited 46×
• Jones v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1977-06-10· cited 28×
• Morris v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1984-10-12· cited 22×