Kirby 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 shooting near, but not necessarily at, the intended victim was sufficient to satisfy the “may be put in peril” element of Code § 18.2-279
• stating that the purpose of assignments of error is to direct opposing counsel and the court to the issues that the appellant claims as error
• stating that the purpose of assignments of error is to direct opposing counsel and the court to the issues that the appellant claims as error
• refusing to consider an argument when “counsel did not lay his finger on the error” (internal quotation marks omitted)
• shooting near, but not necessarily at, intended victim was sufficient to satisfy “may be put in peril” standard of Code § 18.2-279
• noting the defendant’s anger and statements prior to the shooting that victim was “going to die” in finding sufficient evidence that victim’s life was in peril

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

9 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Brandon Wayne Hedrick v. William Page True, Warden, Sussex I State Prison
  Fourth Circuit· 2006-03-31· cited 80×
• State of Maine v. Adams
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 2009-02-27· cited 40×
• Friedline v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 2003-02-28· cited 13×
• Rozario v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 2007-07-24· cited 8×
• State v. Zais
  Court of Appeals of Minnesota· 2010-11-30· cited 4×
• Hedrick v. True
  Fourth Circuit· 2006-03-31
• Kevin Lamont Lambert v. Commonwealth of Virginia
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 2019-10-15
• Timothy Miles, s/k/a Timothy L. Miles v. Commonwealth of Virginia
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 2023-07-25
• Bryan Edelstein v. Commonwealth of Virginia
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 2025-01-14

Cites

3 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Yeatts v. Murray
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1995-03-03· cited 77×
• Brown v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1982-06-18· cited 19×
• Creech v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1991-11-08· cited 3×