Briggs v. Commonwealth
Supreme Court of Virginia
Error to vacation order of judge of circuit court of Culpeper county, denying a writ of error and supersedeas to judgment of county court of said county, rendered 22d February, 1886, on an indictment against Win. Briggs for the murder of M. B. Nalls, whom the jury had found guilty, and whose imprisonment in the penitentiary they had fixed at eighteen years.
1Opinion of the CourtLacy, J.
The plaintiff in error was convicted of murder in the second degree in the county court of Culpeper at the February term of the said court, 1886, and applied for a writ of error to the circuit court of said county, which was refused. Whereupon, the case was brought to this court upon a writ of error. The homicide was committed September, 1885, and a trial was had in the county court of the case, in which the accused was con*556victed of murder in the second degree. Upon appeal to the circuit court, the conviction at the September term, 1885, was. set aside and a new trial awarded.
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