McGhee v. Commonwealth

How courts have described this case

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

• affirming defendant’s conviction for first-degree murder of her husband where she induced a friend to kill on her behalf through repeated encouragement
• applying the standard to accessory before the fact in murder conviction
• finding defendant guilty of robbery where defendant provided gun to actual robber
• “The evidence must ... establish that the accessory before the fact shared the criminal intent of the principal.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

17 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Rollston v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 1991-01-02· cited 287×
• Sutton v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1985-01-18· cited 101×
• Cirios v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 1988-10-18· cited 89×
• Littlejohn v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 1997-03-18· cited 55×
• Schwartz v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 2005-04-19· cited 52×
• Bass v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 2000-01-27· cited 49×
• Jones v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 1992-12-01· cited 17×
• Smith v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 2000-08-01· cited 9×
• Cotter v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 1994-12-13· cited 8×
• Goode v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 2008-07-22· cited 7×
• Charlton v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 2000-03-21· cited 6×
• Schmitt v. True
  E.D. Virginia· 2005-09-15· cited 5×
• Cotter v. Com.
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 1995-05-01
• Commonwealth v. Carter
  Lancaster County Circuit Court· 1989-06-08
• Lucas v. C & B Associates
  Roanoke County Circuit Court· 1990-01-31
• Commonwealth v. Gardner
  Richmond County Circuit Court· 1995-11-16
• Anthony Elijah Perkins v. Commonwealth of Virginia
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 2026-03-31

Cites

14 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Nye & Nissen v. United States
  Supreme Court· 1949-05-31· cited 977×
• United States v. Peoni
  Second Circuit· 1938-12-12· cited 651×
• Jones v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1967-12-04· cited 116×
• Snyder v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1961-09-08· cited 109×
• Foster v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1942-01-19· cited 88×
• Ward v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1964-10-12· cited 62×
• State v. Grimmer
  West Virginia Supreme Court· 1979-02-06· cited 61×
• Rasnake v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1923-01-18· cited 33×
• Turnbull v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1975-10-10· cited 22×
• Tolley v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1975-10-10· cited 22×
• Dusenbery v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1980-02-29· cited 13×
• Hawley v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1880-11-15· cited 9×
• Hatchett v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1882-01-15· cited 9×
• Heller v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1923-09-20· cited 7×