Branch v. Commonwealth
Supreme Court of Virginia
Error to a judgment of the Circuit Court of King William county, rendered 'April 4, 1902, affirming a judgment of the County Court of said county, whereby plaintiff in error was sen-tenced to the penitentiary for two years.
1Opinion of the CourtCardwell, J.
Plaintiff in error, Alley Branch, a youth of about sixteen years of age, was indicted in the County Court of King William county for breaking and entering a certain store-house, known *838as a calming-house, and stealing therefrom ten cans of corn of the value of ten cents each; 125 paper canning checks, each purporting to he an order for two cents, stamped “L. S. M.”; and, upon his trial, was found guilty and sentenced to the penitentiary for .two years. He thereupon applied for a writ of error to the Circuit 'Court of King William county, which was awarded, and, upon a hearing’, the judgment of…
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