Vawter v. Commonwealth
Supreme Court of Virginia
Error to judgment of corporation court of Lynchburg, rendered October 7, 1890, sentencing the prisoner, in accordance with the verdict of the jury, to confinement in the penitentiary for one year, in a prosecution for an alleged malicious assault with intent to maim, disfigure, disable and kill. Opinion states the case.
1Opinion of the Court
Lewis, P.,
delivered the opinion of the court.
There are two assignments of error upon which the case has been submitted. The first relates to the overruling of the *246motion in arrest of judgment. The bill of exceptions states that on the. 2nd day of October, 1890, prior to the term at which the prisoner was tried, a writ of venire facias was issued in due form for the trial, and that the judge of the court gave the sergeant, to whom the writ was directed, a list of twenty-nine persons, ’which list was endorsed as follows: “Summon as venire for trial of felonies to Monday, October 6th, 1890that…
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