Ashlock v. Commonwealth
Supreme Court of Virginia
Error to a judgment of the Oircu.it Court of the city of Williamsburg. Indictment for murder. Defendant assigns error to a judgment of conviction of murder of'the first degree.
1Opinion of the CourtBuchanan, J.
The first error assigned is to the action of the court in continuing the case at the June term, 1907, of the court.
So far as the record shows, this action of the court was not excepted to, and if it had been, even if the court had erred, the mere continuance of the case did not entitle the accused to be discharged from further prosecution, and would furnish no ground for reversing the judgment complained of. Benton’s Case, 91 Va. 782, 21 S. E. 495.
The refusal of the court to quash the writ of venire facias is assigned as error. One of the objections relied on is that the order of the judge…
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