Jordan v. Commonwealth
Supreme Court of Virginia
This was an indictment in the Hustings court of the -city of Bichmond, against Henry Jordan for the robbery of Elijah Priddy of a pistol. Priddy lived in the county of Henrico, beyond the limits of the city, but within one mile of the corporation line, and the robbery was charged to have been committed at bis house.
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This was an indictment in the Hustings court of the -city of Bichmond, against Henry Jordan for the robbery of Elijah Priddy of a pistol. Priddy lived in the county of Henrico, beyond the limits of the city, but within one mile of the corporation line, and the robbery was charged to have been committed at bis house. On the second trial of the prisoner he was found guilty by the jury, and the term of his ímprisin the penitentiary was fixed at five years;, ail4 there was a judgment according to the verdict. On the trial the prisoner took two bills of exceptions to rulings of the court; and…
1Opinion of the CourtStaples, J.
The first assignment of error arises upon a question asked a witness, and set out in the first bill of exceptions. This witness had testified that he went to the prosecutor’s house within a few minutes after the robbery was attempted; that the persons implicated in the robbery were described to him by Mrs. Priddy,. the wife of the prosecutor; that he went immediately in pursuit of these persons, and found the prisoner and a man named Thos. Oakley, who is also under indictment for the same offence, and several other persons, in a bar-room about a mile distant from the prosecutor’s house; and…
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