Wade v. Commonwealth

How courts have described this case

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

• firing of a single shot was held to bar a prosecution of obstruction of justice pursuant to Va. Code § 18.2-460(B) and attempted killing of a police officer pursuant to Va. Code § 18.2-31(F)
• “Code § 19.2-294 speaks to ‘acts’ of the accused, not elements of the offense”
• “Code § 19.2-294 speaks to ‘acts’ of the accused, not elements of the offense.”
• Where both the obstruction of justice charge and the attempted murder charge arose from the same act of firing a gun, the subsequent charge violated Code § 19.2-294 and further noting that the statute “speaks to ‘acts’ of the accused, not elements of the offense.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

16 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Powell v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 2004-01-16· cited 128×
• Hall v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 1992-07-28· cited 96×
• Lash v. County of Henrico
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 1992-07-28· cited 58×
• Davis v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 2011-01-11· cited 39×
• Londono v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 2003-04-29· cited 25×
• Powell v. Kelly
  E.D. Virginia· 2008-01-11· cited 23×
• Fitzgerald v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 1991-02-05· cited 20×
• Johnson v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 2002-04-16· cited 15×
• Lash v. County of Henrico
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 1991-10-29· cited 10×
• Phillips v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 1998-06-30· cited 9×
• Jebrail Jefferson, s/k/a Jibrail Lamont Jefferson v. Commonwealth of Virginia
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 2004-06-15· cited 6×
• Fitzgerald v. Com.
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 1991-03-22
• Evans v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 2020-12-03
• Commonwealth v. Havenner
  Virginia Circuit Court· 1991-04-24
• Commonwealth v. Djelebova
  Charlottesville County Circuit Court· 1999-01-14
• Commonwealth v. Spencer
  Warren County Circuit Court· 1992-04-03

Cites

8 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Jones v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1978-01-13· cited 74×
• Sizemore v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1978-04-21· cited 56×
• Estes v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1971-06-14· cited 42×
• Livingston v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1946-01-14· cited 37×
• Arrington v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1890-11-20· cited 34×
• John Henry Downey v. C. C. Peyton, Superintendent of the Virginia State Penitentiary
  Fourth Circuit· 1971-11-18· cited 30×
• Tasker v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1961-09-08· cited 27×
• United States v. Bird
  S.D. West Virginia· 1959-12-22· cited 1×