Baccigalupo v. Commonwealth
Supreme Court of Virginia
At the April term, 1879, of the hustings court of the city of Richmond, the grand jury found an indictment against Angelo Baccigalupo, for that “on the 15th day of March, in the year eighteen hundred and seventy-nine, at the said city, and within the jurisdiction of the said hustings court of the city of Richmond, in and upon Mary Baccigalupo did make an assault, anc^ ^ier’ ^ie sa^ ■^ary Baccigalupo, feloniously and maliciously did stab, cut and wound, with intent her, the…
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At the April term, 1879, of the hustings court of the city of Richmond, the grand jury found an indictment against Angelo Baccigalupo, for that “on the 15th day of March, in the year eighteen hundred and seventy-nine, at the said city, and within the jurisdiction of the said hustings court of the city of Richmond, in and upon Mary Baccigalupo did make an assault, anc^ ^ier’ ^ie sa^ ■^ary Baccigalupo, feloniously and maliciously did stab, cut and wound, with intent her, the said Mary Baccigalupo, then and there to maim, disfigure, disable and kill. Against the peace,” &c. The prisoner filed…
1Opinion of the CourtChristian, J.
This is a writ of error to a judgment of the hustings court of the city of Richmond. The plaintiff in error was convicted in said coui’t of an assault with intent to kill his wife, Mary Baccigalupo, and that said assault was made feloniously and maliciously.
The murderous assault was distinctly proved. It was proved, that on the night of the 15th March, 1879, the prisoner, while walking with his wife on a narrow and unfrequented street on the bank of the canal basin, made a sudden assault upon her and inflicted upon her person nine wounds with a knife, and attempted to throw her in the canal.
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