Wright v. Commonwealth
Supreme Court of Virginia
At the July term, 1879, of the county court of Bedford, Peter Wright was indicted for the murder of Bobért Maupin. At the same term of the court he was tried, •convicted of murder in the first degree, and sentenced to •be hung. . The prisoner took two bills of exceptions to rulings of' the court—the first to the admission of a juror, and the second to the refusal of the court to grant him a new trial1 on the ground that the verdict was contrary to the evidence.
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At the July term, 1879, of the county court of Bedford, Peter Wright was indicted for the murder of Bobért Maupin. At the same term of the court he was tried, •convicted of murder in the first degree, and sentenced to •be hung. . The prisoner took two bills of exceptions to rulings of' the court—the first to the admission of a juror, and the second to the refusal of the court to grant him a new trial1 on the ground that the verdict was contrary to the evidence. Only the first exception was considered by this-court; and the case is stated in the opinion of Judge Staples. Upon application by…
1Opinion of the CourtStaples, J.
The prisoner was convicted in the county court of Bed-ford of murder in the first degree, and sentenced to be-hanged. When the venire was called, and the jurors sworn to answer questions, the prisoner objected to two of' them as incompetent. One of the persons thus objected to—Charles W. Hardy—stated, that he had read newspaper-accounts of the offence with which prisoner was charged, and had heard rumors of the same; that upon what he had read and heard he had made up and expressed an opinion in the-case; that the opinion so made up and expressed was still Upon his mind; that he did not think…
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