DANVILLE – Devin Lamont Womack accused of shooting 47-year-old Mark Anthony Graves to death in 2016 was acquitted Nov. 16 by a Danville jury in a day long trial.

“Womack’s very pleased, very excited,” Womack’s Roanoke-based attorney, Dirk Padgett, said during an interview after the trail the the Danville Register and Bee newsaper.

Padgett pointed to shaky and unreliable evidence as reasons for the jury’s finding.

“The inconsistencies hurt the commonwealth,” he said.