Dull v. Commonwealth
Supreme Court of Virginia
At the November term, 1874, of the Hustings court of the city of Richmond, John Dull was indicted for the larceny of “divers notes of the national currency of the United States,” of the value of five hundred and seventy dollars, the property of Joseph M. Fowlkes.
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At the November term, 1874, of the Hustings court of the city of Richmond, John Dull was indicted for the larceny of “divers notes of the national currency of the United States,” of the value of five hundred and seventy dollars, the property of Joseph M. Fowlkes. On the trial, the commonwealth introduced through sundry witnesses evidence tending to prove that on or before the 7th day of October 1874, the prisoner, as lessee, occupied a certain house at the corner of Franklin and Thirteenth streets, in the city of Richmond, and that on the said 7th day of October 1874 one John H. Keisel, on…
1Opinion of the Court
MONCURF, P.,
delivered the opinion of the court.
This is a writ of error to a judgment of the Hustings court of the city of Richmond, rendered on the 21st day of November, 1874, convicting the plaintiff in error, John Dull, of grand larceny, and sentencing him therefor to confinement in the penitentiary for the term of three years; the period by the jurors in their verdict ascertained. Various errors are assigned in the judgment, which we will consider in the order of their assignment.
The first is, that the court erred in overruling the motion to quash the indictment.
The indictment charges the…
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