Jones v. Commonwealth
Supreme Court of Virginia
Argued at Wytheville. Decided at Richmond. Error to judgment of the judge of the circuit court of Smythe county, denying a writ of error to the judgment of the county court of that county, rendered October 22,1889, whereby Miller Jones, the plaintiff in error, was sentenced, in accordance with the verdict of the jury, to four years imprisonment in the penitentiary for horse-stealing.
1Opinion of the CourtLacy, J.
The date of the commission of the offense, as charged, was October, 1887. . Under the law in force at the time of the *662commission of the offense, the law required that the accused, when indicted, should be sent before a justice of the peace for examination. Acts 1885-6, p. 522. But at the time oí the trial, October, 1889, the law had been changed, and this requirement was omitted, and it was enacted that a capias should issue. Code Va. (in force May 1, 1888), sec. 4003. The law-in force at the time of the trial was 'followed as to this, and the accused excepted; and, upon the adverse ruling of…
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