Snodgrass v. Commonwealth
Supreme Court of Virginia
Error to judgment of circuit court of Wise county, rendered on the 17th day of May, 1892, affirming the judgment of the county' court of said county, rendered on the 8th day of December, 1891, whereby the plaintiff in error was convicted of murder in the second degree, and sentenced to the penitentiary for eighteen years.
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Error to judgment of circuit court of Wise county, rendered on the 17th day of May, 1892, affirming the judgment of the county' court of said county, rendered on the 8th day of December, 1891, whereby the plaintiff in error was convicted of murder in the second degree, and sentenced to the penitentiary for eighteen years. The case is, briefly, as follows: On the 4th day of July, 1891, the plaintiff in error, Webster Snodgrass, Morgan Thacker (now dead), and others, in considerable numbers, were assembled at a pic-nic at a town called Morton, in the county of Wise. The plaintiff in error is…
1Opinion of the Court
Lacy, J.,
(after stating the case,) delivered the opinion of the .court.
The first assignment of error here is that the record does not show that the special grand jury was not ordered by the judge in vacation. This assignment was abandoned at the argument, upon the ruling in Robinson v. The Commonwealth, 88 Va. Rep. 903, the question having been raised by motion to quash the indictment, which motion the court overruled.
The second assignment of error is the action of the court in *683finding for the commonwealth upon this same question raised by plea, in which there was no error. The law does not…
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