Myers v. Commonwealth
Supreme Court of Virginia
Error to a judgment of the Corporation Court of the city of Roanoke. The accused were jointly indicted. The indictment contains only one count, and in that one count charges that both of the accused, at a certain time and place stated, did feloniously break and enter a certain railroad car, the number, etc., of which is stated, “then and there in the lawful custody and control” of a certain railroad company designated, “with the intent to commit larceny thereinand further…
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Error to a judgment of the Corporation Court of the city of Roanoke. The accused were jointly indicted. The indictment contains only one count, and in that one count charges that both of the accused, at a certain time and place stated, did feloniously break and enter a certain railroad car, the number, etc., of which is stated, “then and there in the lawful custody and control” of a certain railroad company designated, “with the intent to commit larceny thereinand further charges both of the accused with actual larceny, at the same time and place, consisting of the feloniously taking,…
1Opinion of the Court
Sims, J.,
after making the foregoing statement, delivered the following opinion of the court.
[1] One of the assignments of error in the petition is as follows:
“The court erred in failing and refusing to sustain objections to the admissibility of the evidence as shown by the exceptions in the record noted.”
There is no bill of exceptions or certificate of the judge in the record pointing out the rulings complained of in the assignment of error just referred to. The exceptions men*757tioned in this assignment of error are contained in the general bill of exceptions certifying all of the evidence and…
2Cases cited12 opinions
- Norfolk & Western Railroad v. H. I. ShottSupreme Court of Virginia · 1895
- Kibler v. CommonwealthSupreme Court of Virginia · 1897
- Gravely v. CommonwealthSupreme Court of Virginia · 1889
- State v. BradySupreme Court of Iowa · 1903
- Tyler v. CommonwealthSupreme Court of Virginia · 1917
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