Bradshaw v. Commonwealth
Supreme Court of Virginia
At the June term 1857, of the Circuit court for the corporation of Lynchburg, the grand jury found an indictment against Robert Bradshaw for keeping and exhibiting a certain gaming table called a faro bank, “a true bill.” And at the same term Bradshaw appeared, and pleaded 1 ‘not guilty” to the indictment; and on his motion the case was continued until the next term.
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At the June term 1857, of the Circuit court for the corporation of Lynchburg, the grand jury found an indictment against Robert Bradshaw for keeping and exhibiting a certain gaming table called a faro bank, “a true bill.” And at the same term Bradshaw appeared, and pleaded 1 ‘not guilty” to the indictment; and on his motion the case was continued until the next term. Between this time and the June term 1860, the indictment was lost or abstracted; so that when the case was called for trial at the latter term, it could not be produced; and on the motion of the attorney for the commonwealth he…
1Opinion of the CourtDaniee, J.
The question, upon the decision of which depends the judgment to be given in this case, is a nice and difficult ■one. It is res integra here; and the counsel on either side and the court after diligent search, have failed to find any authority in the British Reporters or text books which would seem to rule it. The only case cited at the bar in which the question has been fully discussed and distinctly adjudged is the case of Ganaway v. The State, 22 Alab. R. 772, relied on by the counsel of the plaintiff in error—in their printed argument. In that case after several continuances of a…
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