Dove v. Commonwealth
Supreme Court of Virginia
Error to judgment of the circuit judge of Pittsylvania county, in vacation, refusing a writ of error and supersedeas to the judgment of the county court of said county, sentencing George W. Dove, who had been found guilty by the jury on an indictment for grand larceny, and whose term of confinement in the penitentiary was by them fixed at the term of five, years.
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Error to judgment of the circuit judge of Pittsylvania county, in vacation, refusing a writ of error and supersedeas to the judgment of the county court of said county, sentencing George W. Dove, who had been found guilty by the jury on an indictment for grand larceny, and whose term of confinement in the penitentiary was by them fixed at the term of five, years. At the trial exceptions were taken to several rulings of the court; and to said judgment of the circuit judge, prisoner obtained from one of the judges of this court a writ of error and supersedeas.
1Opinion of the CourtRichardson, J.
The prisoner assigns two errors in the judgment and proceedings against him, and these will be considered in the order of their assignment in his petition. He says: “It will appear from the transcript of the record that the jury which rendered the verdict against the prisoner in court on the 24th day of October, 1885, was not the same jury which was elected, tried, and sworn in court to try the cause against the prisoner on the 22d of October, 1885, but that a certain George T. Moon, who was one of the original panel sworn to try said cause, was not a member of the jury which rendered a…
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