Howell v. Commonwealth

Citations

• 26 Va. 995
• 26 Gratt. 995

Syllabus

<p>T. Upon tbe evidence the prisoner held to be guilty of murder in. the first degree.</p> <p>2. The jury having found the prisoner guilty of murder in the first degree, and the court of trial having refused to set aside the verdict and grant a new trial, the appellate court even if they had some doubt about the sufficiency of the evidence to convict the prisoner of murder in the first degree, would not reverse the judgment.</p> <p>.3. Murder committed by any of the specific means enumerated in the statute, Code of 1873, ch. 187, $ 1, is murder in the first degree, whether there was any actual intent to kill or not.</p>