Simmons 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 conviction despite trial court’s failure to arraign the appellant on a charge because failure to arraign “could only have rendered the resulting judgment voidable if it had been subject to a proper and timely objection”
• “[A] court speaks through its orders and those orders are presumed to accurately reflect what transpired.” (quoting McBride v. Commonwealth, 24 Va. App. 30, 35 (1997))

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).