Bryan v. Commonwealth
Supreme Court of Virginia
Error to judgment of circuit court of Hem’ico county, rendered May 8th, 1888, in proceedings wherein the Commonwealth was plaintiff, and Joseph Bryan, the plaintiff in error, was the defendant.
1Opinion of the CourtLacy, J.
The action was brought under the act of assembly of May 12, 1887; entitled “ an act to provide for the recovery hy motion of taxes, and certain debts due the Commonwealth, for the payment of which papers purporting to be genuine coupons of the Commonwealth have been tendered.” At the trial of the case the defendant was required to produce the bonds from which the coupons in question had been cut, in order to test their genuineness in the mode prescribed by law, by the act of January 26, 1887, entitled “an act to prescribe a rule of evidence *527in certain cases ” ; but tbe defendant insisted that…
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