Honesty v. Commonwealth
Supreme Court of Virginia
Error to judgment of corporation court of Winchester, on the verdict of a jury finding Wesley Honesty guilty of the murder, in the first degree, of .Joseph McFaul, upon the indictment pending in that court, and sentencing the said Wesley Honesty to death by hanging. To this judgment the prisoner obtained, from one of the judges of this court, a writ of error and supersedeas; which was argued at Staunton, but decided at Richmond.
1Opinion of the CourtRichardson, J.
The prisoner, by his counsel, demurred to the indictment, and the court overruled the demurrer, and rightly did so.
At the trial the prisoner took several bills of exceptions to the rulings of the court, and these present the points for de*285cisión, including the facts proved, which are set forth in one of them.
The first assignment of error is that “the jury was not legally selected.” The facts relating to this assignment are set forth in the prisoner’s hill of exceptions, No. 1, from which it appears that twenty-four persons—qualified jurors—had been summoned, as required by law, and were in…
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