Burton & Conquest v. Commonwealth
Supreme Court of Virginia
Error to a judgment of the Corporation Court of the city of Norfolk on an indictment for murder. To a judgment of conviction of manslaughter defendants assign error.
1Opinion of the Court
Keith, P.,
delivered the opinion of the court.
Burton and Conquest were jointly indicted in the Circuit Court of Accomac county, for the murder of John Topping. They were found guilty and sentenced to confinement in the penitentiary for ten years. To that judgment a writ of error was awarded by this court. The judgment was reversed, and the case was removed to the Corporation Court of the city of Norfolk, where they were again tried and a verdict was rendered against them of voluntary manslaughter, and fixing their punishment at one year in the penitentiary. To the judgment upon this verdict a…
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