*460 POFF, J., delivered the opinion of the Court. On November 2, 1977, Michael Marnell Smith was convicted by a jury of capital murder following rape. Code § § 18.2-10(a) and 31(e) (Cum. Supp. 1977). The next day, pursuant to the bifurca…
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