Waller & Boggs v. Commonwealth
Supreme Court of Virginia
Error to judgment of the judge of the circuit court of Spotsylvania county refusing a writ of error and supersedeas to'the judgment of the county court of said county, rendered March 8th, 1887, upon an indictment against Mary D. Waller and Jennie Boggs for a felonious assault upon the person of one William S. Waller. By the judgment of the county court the defendants were sentenced to two years confinement in the penitentiary in accordance with the verdict of the jury.
1Opinion of the CourtHinton, J.
The plaintiffs in error, Mary D. Waller and Jennie Boggs, were arrested, examined, and sent on to be tried for a housebreaking with intent to kill and rob, charged to have been committed by them on the 11th June, 1886. On the 5th day of July, 1886, they were indicted for burglary and grand larceny, and they were held under these indictments until the 7th of December in the same year, when the third grand jury which had met since their arrest, indicted them for a felonious assault. Hpon this last-mentioned indictment .they were tried, convicted, and sentenced, whereupon they applied to the…
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