Commonwealth v. Latham

This is a petition on the part of the Commonwealth, invoking the original jurisdiction of this court in prohibition. In the case of Com’th v. Jones, the judgment of the corporation court of Lynchburg was reversed by this court, and costs awarded the Commonwealth in the sum of $25.92, expended in the prosecu*633tion of her appeal. The judgment was certified to the corporation court, and execution issued in favor of the Commonwealth against said Jones, and placed in the hands of the sergeant, who was proceeding by levy to make the money, when a chancery suit was instituted in the corporation court…