Hunt v. Commonwealth
Supreme Court of Virginia
This was an indictment against Calvin Hunt in the Circuit court of Mercer county, for the larceny of a bank note. The case is stated by Judge Allen in his opinion.
1Opinion of the Court
Allen, P.
The prisoner was indicted for stealing a bank note for the payment of twenty dollars, the property of Green Gore. The first count charges the stealing of a bank note for the payment of twenty dollars, without further description. The second count charges the stealing of a bank note on the *758Bank of the Valley of Virginia, issued at Winchester in Virginia, dated the-day of July 1853, for the 1 payment of twenty dollars. On the trial the prisoner excepted to three instructions to the jury, given at the instance of the commonwealth’s attorney.
By the first the court instructed the jury…
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