Brown v. Commonwealth
Supreme Court of Virginia
Error to judgment of tlie judge of the circuit court of Stafford county, rendered March 29, 1889, refusing a writ of error to a judgment of the county court of said county, rendered February, 1889, sentencing Henry Brown, the plaintiff in error, in accordance with the verdict of the jury, to imprisonment in the penitentiary for the period of fifteen years for the murder of J. B. Heflin.
1Opinion of the Court
Lewis, P.,
delivered the opinion of the court.
The prisoner was indicted in the county court of Stafford county for the murder of J. B. Heflin, and at a subsequent term he was put upon his trial, found guilty of murder in the second degree, and sentenced, in accordance with the verdict, to confinement in the penitentiary for a term of fifteen years.
1. To the indictment there was a demurrer, which was based upon two grounds. The first was ttíll the deceased was designated in the indictment by initials of his name merely; and the second was that the indictment lacked the requisite constitutional…
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