Prison Ass'n v. Ashby
Supreme Court of Virginia
Error to a judgment of the judge of the County Court of Washington county, rendered in the vacation of said court on July 26, 1896, on a writ of habeas corpus awarded in favor of the defendant in error against the plaintiff in error. William Ashby is a child seven years old.
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Error to a judgment of the judge of the County Court of Washington county, rendered in the vacation of said court on July 26, 1896, on a writ of habeas corpus awarded in favor of the defendant in error against the plaintiff in error. William Ashby is a child seven years old. While his father and mother were both in jail on criminal charges, of which they were subsequently acquitted, William was arrested, tried, and convicted by a justice of the peace for the larceny of an axe. He was sentenced to the Prison Association of Virginia for an indefinite period, which, according to law, may be…
1Opinion of the CourtBuchanan, J.
*669A number of interesting and important questions were raised and discussed in this case, but, in the view we take of it, the only question that it is necessary for us to decide is the constitutionality of an act of the General Assembly approved February 27, 1896.
The first objection to the validity of section 8 of the act is that the title of the act gives no intimation of the legislation contained in that section, and that it is therefore void, because not passed in conformity to section 15, Article V. of the Constitution.
The act is entitled “An act in relation to commitment of minors to…
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