Parrish v. Commonwealth
Supreme Court of Virginia
Error to the judgment of circuit court of Goochland county, rendered as its April term, 1884, overruling the motion of Alexander L. Parrish, plaintiff in error, for a new trial, and sentencing him to confinement in the penitentiary for seven years in accordance with the verdict of the jury then rendered against him, finding him guilty of murder in the second degree of A. J. Mitchell, for which said plaintiff stood indicted.
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Error to the judgment of circuit court of Goochland county, rendered as its April term, 1884, overruling the motion of Alexander L. Parrish, plaintiff in error, for a new trial, and sentencing him to confinement in the penitentiary for seven years in accordance with the verdict of the jury then rendered against him, finding him guilty of murder in the second degree of A. J. Mitchell, for which said plaintiff stood indicted. Parrish had contracted to let Mitchell cultivate his land and to give him part of the crop after paying advances by Parrish to him. The crop had not been divided, but it…
1Opinion of the CourtFauntleroy, J.
This is a writ of error to a judgment of the circuit court of Goochland county, rendered at its April term, 1884, overruling the motion of plaintiff in error for a new trial, and sentencing *3him to confinement in the 'penitentiary for seven years, in accordance with the verdict of the jury then rendered against him finding him guilty of murder in the second degree in a prosecution for murder, therein pending, for the killing of A. J. Mitchell. The record discloses the following case:
On February 3d, 1882, Alexander L. Parrish, the plaintiff in error, and one A. J. Mitchell, the deceased,…
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