Legal Opinion

Fortune v. Commonwealth

Supreme Court of Virginia

Decided June 15, 1922PublishedCited by 26 opinions

1Opinion of the Court

Sims, J.,

after making the foregoing statement, delivered the following opinion of the court:

There is one assignment of error touching a remark of the learned trial judge before the jury during the trial, which we need not deal with, as the case must be reversed on other grounds and no occasion for such a remark is likely to arise on a new trial.

The question presented by the remaining assignments of error will be disposed of in their order as stated below.

*6831. Did the court, upon the mere objection of the attorney for the Commonwealth to their accuracy, err in refusing to admit in evidence the…

2Cases cited11 opinions

  1. Alberty v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 1896
  2. Beard v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 1895
  3. Brown v. CommonwealthSupreme Court of Virginia · 1890
  4. Litton v. CommonwealthSupreme Court of Virginia · 1903
  5. Montgomery v. CommonwealthSupreme Court of Virginia · 1900

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3Cited by26 opinions

  1. United States v. Bennie L. PetersonCourt of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit · 1973
  2. Harper v. CommonwealthSupreme Court of Virginia · 1955
  3. State v. PreeceWest Virginia Supreme Court · 1935
  4. McReynolds v. CommonwealthSupreme Court of Virginia · 1941
  5. Thomason v. CommonwealthSupreme Court of Virginia · 1941

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