Legal Opinion
Pine v. Commonwealth
Court of Appeals of Virginia
Decided September 20, 1917PublishedCited by 82 opinions
Error to a judgment of the Corporation Court of the city of Roanoke. The opinion states the case.
1Opinion of the Court
Burks, J.,
délivered the opinion of the court.
*820The plaintiffs in error were indicted, tried and convicted under the prohibition act (Acts 1916, p. 215). The indictment was framed under section 7 of the act, which, so far as necessary to be quoted, is in the following words:
“Sec. 7. While any good and sufficient indictment may be used, an indictment for any first offense under sections three, four and five, of this act, shall be sufficient if substantially in the form or to the effect following:
“ ‘State of Virginia,
“ ‘County of............to-wit :
“‘In the circuit court of..............county:
“…
2Cases cited54 opinions
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3Cited by82 opinions
- Webb v. CommonwealthSupreme Court of Virginia · 1963
- John Lewis Snead v. W. Frank Smyth, Jr., Superintendent of the Virginia State PenitentiaryCourt of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit · 1959
- Bell v. CommonwealthSupreme Court of Virginia · 1938
- Burnette v. CommonwealthSupreme Court of Virginia · 1953
- Mitchell v. CommonwealthSupreme Court of Virginia · 1925
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