McCue v. Commonwealth
Supreme Court of Virginia
Petition for a writ of error to a judgment of the Corporation Court of the city of Charlottesville, sentencing the petitioner to be hanged. J. Samuel McCue resided in the city of Charlottesville, where he had been practicing law for twenty years prior to the commission of the offense for which he was convicted. He was a man of social standing, and reputed wealth. His family consisted of himself, his wife, Pannie Crawford McCue, and four children, three boys and a girl.
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Petition for a writ of error to a judgment of the Corporation Court of the city of Charlottesville, sentencing the petitioner to be hanged. J. Samuel McCue resided in the city of Charlottesville, where he had been practicing law for twenty years prior to the commission of the offense for which he was convicted. He was a man of social standing, and reputed wealth. His family consisted of himself, his wife, Pannie Crawford McCue, and four children, three boys and a girl. The eldest of these children was J. William McCue, a boy of about seventeen years of age. J. Samuel McCue had been three…
1Opinion of the Court
Keith, P.,
delivered the opinion of the court.
Petitioner was indicted by a grand jury in the Corporation Court of the city of Charlottesville on September 19, 1904, for the murder on the 4th of September preceding of his wife, Fanny M. McCue. At a subsequent term of the court he was tried upon this indictment, and on the 5th day of November the jury found him guilty of murder in the first degree. The court sentenced him to be hanged, and he thereupon applied to this court for a writ of error, which was refused, the court being of opinion that the judgment complained of was plainly right. At a…
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