Irvine v. Commonwealth

Whittle, P.,

delivered the opinion of the court.

Plaintiff in error, Walter Irvine, was the manager of the Royster office building, in the city of Norfolk. He was tried before a police justice of that city for a misdemeanor for the alleged violation of two acts of the General Assembly, approved, respectively, March 11 and March 17, 1916 (Acts 1916, cc. 160, 278), and fined five dollars.

Upon appeal from that judgment to the corporation court, a jury was waived, and accused was found guilty by the court, which imposed upon him a like fine of five dollars. To the latter judgment, this writ of…