Doyle v. Commonwealth
Supreme Court of Virginia
Error to a judgment of the Corporation Court of the city of Lynchburg, rendered June 22, 1900, on an indictment against the plaintiff in error for an attempt to rape. The plaintiff in •error was found guilty of assault and battery, and his punishment was fixed at a fine of one thousand dollars, and confinement in jail for one year.
1Opinion of the Court
Keith, P.,
delivered the opinion of the court.
Plaintiff in error was indicted in the Corporation Court of the- city of Lynchburg for assaulting -Maggie L. Coomes with intent to commit rápe. The jury found 'him not guilty of this •charge, but guilty of assault and battery, and fixed his punishment at one year’s imprisonment in jail, and a fine of $1,000. The prisoner moved to set this verdict aside, which the Corporation Court refused to do, and from this judgment the case is -before us upon a writ of error.
When the jury were being selected T. A. Jennings, one of the panel, stated upon his voir…
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