Lawrence v. Com.

Albert Justin LAWRENCE v. COMMONWEALTH of Virginia.

Supreme Court of Virginia

Decided April 15, 1994.

Supreme Court of Virginia · decided 1994-04-15

Relies on 17 Va. App. 140 - Lawrence v. Commonwealth

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Decided 1994-04-15

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¶1Elizabeth Dashiell Scher (Morchower, Luxton and Whaley, on brief), for appellant.

¶2Margaret Ann B. Walker, Asst. Atty. Gen. (James S. Gilmore, III, Atty. Gen., on brief), for appellee.

¶3 *161 Present: All the Justices.

¶4PER CURIAM.

¶5In this case, we awarded appellant an appeal from the judgment of the Court of Appeals holding that the trial court did not err in ruling (1) that the appellant consented to a search of his person for the purpose of determining whether he possessed any illegal narcotics, and (2) that he did not withdraw that consent during the course of the search. Lawrence v. Commonwealth, 17 Va.App. 140, 435 S.E.2d 591 (1993).

¶6We have considered the questions, and for the reasons stated in the opinion of the Court of Appeals, we will affirm the judgment below.

¶7Affirmed.