Thon v. Commonwealth
Supreme Court of Virginia
Motion for correcting taxation of the costs in the case of Thon v. Commonwealth, 81 Gratt. 881, so far as the fee of $20 is taxed as the fee of the attorney-general. C. Thon was convicted in the hustings court of the city of Eichmond in May, 1818, for violating the act of March 6th, 1814, chapter 83, page 16, commonly called the “Sunday law,” and obtained a writ of error to the judgment from one of the judges of this court.
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Motion for correcting taxation of the costs in the case of Thon v. Commonwealth, 81 Gratt. 881, so far as the fee of $20 is taxed as the fee of the attorney-general. C. Thon was convicted in the hustings court of the city of Eichmond in May, 1818, for violating the act of March 6th, 1814, chapter 83, page 16, commonly called the “Sunday law,” and obtained a writ of error to the judgment from one of the judges of this court. On the hearing of the writ the judgment of the hustings court was affirmed with costs to the commonwealth. Subsequently in this court Thon made this motion to correct the…
1Opinion of the CourtLacy, J.
This is a motion to correct the taxation of the costs in this case, so far as the fee of $20 is taxed as the attorney-generaBs fee.
By the thirteenth section of chapter 181 of the Code of 1813, twenty dollars is prescribed as the attorney's fee in this court, taxed with the costs, and recovered hy the side substantially prevailing, as other costs are recovered.
By the sixteenth section of the same chapter of the Code, it is provided that in the cases of the commonwealth “what is so taxed for fees of, or allowance to any person, shall he paid to him by the sheriff or officer who may receive such…
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