Fry v. Commonwealth
Supreme Court of Virginia
Error to judgment of circuit court of Greene county affirming the judgment of the county court of said county, rendered at its August term, 1885, sentencing to hard labor in the penitentiary, for the 4erm of eighteen years, one Joseph Fry, whom the jury had found guilty on an indictment for rape, and whose term of imprisonment they fixed at that period. From this judgment a writ of error and supersedeas was granted the prisoner by one of the judges of this court.
1Opinion of the CourtLacy, J.
The plaintiff in error was convicted of the crime of rape in the county court of Greene county, at the August term of the said court, 1885. He obtained a writ of error to the circuit court of said county, where the said judgment was affirmed. Whereupon he obtained a writ of error here.
The first exception was as to the venire facias, and his first assignment of error here is, that the county court obtained a panel of sixteen free from exception, when twenty-four had been summoned as such panel, and that he was allowed a peremptory challenge as to only four, the remaining twelve being sworn as…
2Cases cited4 opinions
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