Temple v. Commonwealth
Supreme Court of Virginia
This case was in this court by writ of error to a judgment of the hustings court of the city of Eichmond. The case is fully stated by Judge Christian in his opinion.
1Opinion of the CourtChristian, J.
This is a writ of error to a judgment of the hustings court of the city of Eichmond, which judgment imposed a fine of §50 on the plaintiff in error, and committed him to the jail of the city of Eichmond for twenty days; said fine and imprisonment being imposed by said hustings court for contempt of the plaintiff in error, for refusing to answer a question propounded to him by the Commonwealth’s attorney, upon the trial of a cause *893in which he had been summoned as a witness for the Commonwealth, and upon whose evidence an indictment had been found by the grand jury against one Andrew J. Berry.
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