White v. Commonwealth
Supreme Court of Virginia
Error to judgment of hustings court of city of Richmond, rendered February 19th, 1884, on an indictment against Charles H. White, sentencing him (for the second offence under the same act) to pay a fine of five hundred dollars and the costs of the prosecution, and to be confined in the jail of the said city until the fine and costs be paid.
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Error to judgment of hustings court of city of Richmond, rendered February 19th, 1884, on an indictment against Charles H. White, sentencing him (for the second offence under the same act) to pay a fine of five hundred dollars and the costs of the prosecution, and to be confined in the jail of the said city until the fine and costs be paid. This prosecution is founded on section thirty-one of chapter 119, of the “Virginia Revenue Laws,” entitled an act for the assessment of taxes on persons, property, income, licenses, &c., and imposing taxes thereon for the support of the. government and…
1Opinion of the CourtRichardson, J.
In the view of the case taken by this court, it will only be necessary to consider the question raised by the defendant’s first hill of exceptions, which sets forth, that on the calling of the case at the term of the court at which the trial was had, the defendant, by his counsel, moved for a continuance until the next term (March), upon the ground that there was already pending on the docket of the supreme court of appeals another case involving precisely the same questions against the same defendant, and involving the construction of the statute under which he is prosecuted in this case,…
2Cases cited1 opinion
- White v. CommonwealthSupreme Court of Virginia · 1884
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