Sweat v. Commonwealth

E. B. Sweat was convicted of unlawfully purchasing and taking an assignment of the salary of Geo. A. Benedict, at a rate of discount in excess of ten per cent per annum, and sentenced to pay a fine of $25.00 and costs. This is a writ of error to that judgment.

That portion of sub-section 14, section 1, chapter '300, of the Acts of the General Assembly of Virginia, 1922, as amended by chapter 152 of the Acts of 1928, under which the prosecution was conducted, reads as follows:

“The payment of three hundred dollars or less, in money, credit, goods or choses in action, as the consideration for any…