Southern Railway Co. v. Mosby
Supreme Court of Virginia
Error to a judgment of the Law and Equity Court of the city of Richmond, in an action of trespass on the case. Judgment for the plaintiff. Defendant assigns error.
1Opinion of the CourtCardwell, J.
On the 24th day of July, 1908, J. N. Seagle sued out a warrant in the city of Richmond, charging that Joseph L. Mosby, of said city, within thirty days last past, “did unlawfully and feloniously steal, take and carry away one case of Piedmont cigarettes of the value of $85.00 in U. S. currency, the property of the Southern Railway Co.” Upon this warrant Mosby was arrested, carried before the police justice of the city, and there, after a preliminary hearing, was sent on to the grand jury. In October, 1908, the grand jury of the hustings court found an indictment against Mosby, containing…
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