Enoch v. Commonwealth
Supreme Court of Virginia
The opinion states the case.
1Opinion of the CourtBurks, J.
*415Joseph Enoch, the plaintiff in error, was convicted of murder of the first degree, and sentenced to serve a term of twenty years in the penitentiary. He excepted to several rulings- of the trial court, and these exceptions are made the grounds of the assignments of error in this court.
There was offered in evidence and rejected by the trial court an alleged confession made by the accused. Of course, no exceptions were filed by the accused as the ruling was in his favor, and none by the Commonwealth as it had no right of appeal. The trial judge, however, requested this court to pass on the…
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