Title: Commonwealth v. South (order)
Citation: N/A
Docket Number: 060138
State: Virginia
Issuer: Virginia Supreme Court
Date: June 8, 2006

VIRGINIA: 
 
 
In the Supreme Court of Virginia held at the Supreme Court 
Building in the City of Richmond, on Thursday, the 8th day of June, 
2006. 
 
 
Commonwealth of Virginia, 
 
 
 
 
Appellant, 
 
 against  
Record No. 060138 
 
 
 
 
Court of Appeals No. 2209-04-1 
 
Holly Jo South, 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Appellee. 
 
From the Court of Appeals of Virginia 
 
 
Upon the petition of the Commonwealth of Virginia and a review 
of the record, pleadings and the argument of appellant’s counsel, 
the Court finds no merit to assignments of error I and II and 
refuses the petition as to those assignments of error.  The 
appellee, however, concedes that appellant is correct as to its 
third assignment of error, which reads as follows: 
III. Assuming arguendo that the trial court erred in 
convicting the defendant under the felony provisions of 
the assault and battery statute, the Court of Appeals 
erred in remanding the case for a new trial, instead of 
simply remanding the case for a new sentencing proceeding 
on the lesser included offense for which the petitioner 
was validly convicted. 
 
 
Accordingly, the petition is granted as to assignment of error 
III, that part of the judgment of the Court of Appeals remanding 
the case for a new trial is reversed, and the case is remanded to 
the Court of Appeals with instruction to remand to the trial court 
for a new sentencing proceeding on the lesser-included offense of 
assault and battery, a Class 1 misdemeanor. 
 
Justices Keenan and Lemons did not participate in the 
consideration of this case. 
This order shall be published in the Virginia Reports and 
shall be certified to the Court of Appeals of Virginia and the 
Circuit Court of the City of Norfolk. 
 
 
 
 
 
A copy, 
 
 
 
 
 
Teste: 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Patricia L. Harrington, Clerk