Toler v. Commonwealth

At the May term, 1948, of the Corporation Court of the City of Lynchburg, the defendant, Charles Toler, Jr., was indicted for “unlawfully and feloniously” stealing, on the 12th day of April, 1948, a billfold, of the value of $5 and lawful money of the United States of America of the value of $17. The indictment further alleged that the defendant had been before sentenced for like offenses of petit larceny, —first in the Municipal Court of the said city on July 10, 1947, and, second, in the Corporation Court of the said city on November 3, 1947.

The defendant pleaded not guilty to the…