McBride v. Commonwealth
Supreme Court of Virginia
Error to a judgment of the County Court of Patrick county, rendered December 4, 1891, upon an indictment against the plaintiff in error for murder. The indictment contained a number of counts, in some of which the plaintiff alone was charged with the murder, and in others it was charged that the murder was committed jointly by the plaintiff in error and Albert King and Edgar King The plaintiff in error elected to be tried separately.
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Error to a judgment of the County Court of Patrick county, rendered December 4, 1891, upon an indictment against the plaintiff in error for murder. The indictment contained a number of counts, in some of which the plaintiff alone was charged with the murder, and in others it was charged that the murder was committed jointly by the plaintiff in error and Albert King and Edgar King The plaintiff in error elected to be tried separately. There was a demurrer to the indictment and to each count thereof, and the ground of the demurrer was that the indictment should have been either joint or…
1Opinion of the Court
Keith, P.,
delivered the opinion of the court.
Charles McBride was indicted in the County Court of Patrick county for the murder of A. B. Cranford, and upon his trial was found guilty of murder in the second degree and sentenced to the penitentiary for 18 years. Pie thereupon applied for a writ of error to the Circuit Court of Patrick county, which was refused, and the case is now before us upon a writ of error awarded by one of the judges of this court.
The first assignment of error is to the judgment of the County Court overruling the prisoner’s demurrer to the indictment. This assignment of…
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