Commonwealth v. Dandridge
General Court of Virginia
This Case was argued by Geigh, for the defendant, and Robertson, Attorney General, for the Commonwealth, at the November Term, 1823, before White, Holmes, Smith, Allen, Dade, Semple, R. E. Parker, and Summers, J., *but was not then decided for want of time, and because one of the Judges was compelled to leave the Court.
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This Case was argued by Geigh, for the defendant, and Robertson, Attorney General, for the Commonwealth, at the November Term, 1823, before White, Holmes, Smith, Allen, Dade, Semple, R. E. Parker, and Summers, J., *but was not then decided for want of time, and because one of the Judges was compelled to leave the Court. At the present Term, only four of those Judges, namely, White, Holmes, Dade, and R. E. Parker, were on the bench, the other six who were now in Court, not having attended on the former occasion. The Counsel for the Defendant declined arguing the Case a second time, and, of…
1Opinion of the Court
DADE}, J.,
pronounced the following opinion :
This is a Case adjourned to this Court by the Superior Court of Daw for the county of James City, and City of Williamsburg. The facts are these: At the last Pall Term of that Court, on the second day of the Term, and about the hour, to which the Judge had, on the preceding evening, adjourned the Court, as the Judge was 'going into the Court-house, he met the Defendant on the steps. The Judg'e saluted the Defendant in the usual manner: upon which the Defendant said, that he did not speak to any person who was so corrupt and cowardly as to attack the…
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