Hey v. Commonwealth
Supreme Court of Virginia
At the July term, 1879, of the hustings court of the city of Richmond, Henry W. Hey was indicted for feloniously buying, or receiving, one double set of harness, of the value of $300, knowing them to have been stolen. On the trial the jury found the prisoner guilty, and fixed the term of his imprisonment in the penitentiary at three years; and the court sentenced him accordingly. And he upon applied for a writ of error, which was allowed.
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At the July term, 1879, of the hustings court of the city of Richmond, Henry W. Hey was indicted for feloniously buying, or receiving, one double set of harness, of the value of $300, knowing them to have been stolen. On the trial the jury found the prisoner guilty, and fixed the term of his imprisonment in the penitentiary at three years; and the court sentenced him accordingly. And he upon applied for a writ of error, which was allowed. In the progress of the trial the prisoner took two bills of exception to rulings of the court. The first was to the admission of a witness by the…
1Opinion of the CourtBurks, J.
When Henry W. Hey (the plaintiff in error here) was on trial in the court below, before any evidence had been introduced, the attorney for the commonwealth asked that all of the witnesses should be sent from the court room, and no objection being made by the prisoner, this was ordered by the court, and all of the witnesses then sworn for the commonwealth, and the witnesses for the prisoner, were sent out, except Police Justice White, who, by consent of counsel on both sides, was allowed to remain. Afterwards, when evidence had been introduced tending to show that the prisoner obtained the…
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