Johnson v. Commonwealth

Moncure, P.,

delivered the opinion of the court.

This is a writ of error to a judgment of the Hustings-court of the city of Richmond, convicting the plaintiff in error, Mahala Johnson, of grand larceny, and sentencing her to confinement in the penitentiary for five years. The offence for which she was prosecuted is declared by the Code, chapter 192, section 14, as amended and re*556enacted, first by the act passed February 20, 1866, Acts of 1865-6, p. 89, chap. 23, and again by the act passed March 1, 1867, acts of 1866-67, p. 709, chap. 283, which is in these words:

“ § 14. If any person steal from…