Bird Woods v. Commonwealth
Supreme Court of Virginia
Error to j udgment of circuit court of Franklin county affirming judgment of county court of said county rendered December 14, 1889, whereby Bird Woods, the plaintiff in error, was sentenced to be hanged in accordance with the verdict of the jury at the trial of an indictment against him and others for arson.
1Opinion of the Court
Lewis, P.,
delivered the opinion of the court.
Many of the questions arising in this case are disposed of by what was said in Early’s case.- Here, as in that case, there was a motion, when the case was called for trial, to set aside the arraignment and for leave to withdraw the plea of not guilty, entered upon the arraignment at a former term, and to plead in abatement. But the motion was overruled, and, as we think,, correctly, for reasons given in the Early case. So, also, for reasons given in that case, we are of opinion that there *934was no error in overruling the prisoner’s motion for a…
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