Mohler v. Commonwealth
Supreme Court of Virginia
Error to a judgment of the Circuit Court of Rockbridge county.
1Opinion of the CourtPrentis, J.
The accused has been convicted of murder in the second degree, and is here assigning numerous errors.
[1] Exception No. 2 arose out of these circumstances: There had been an inquest over a dea,d body, alleged to be that of Aubrey Tyree, and a stenographic report of the evidence taken at that inquest had been, made at the expense of the attorney for the Commonwealth, but the coroner, as it was charged, had not filed that transcript, but had merely a synopsis thereof with the inquest. Then there had been a previous trial of the case, and the jury had failed to agree. The attorneys for the…
2Cases cited32 opinions
- Commonwealth v. SturtivantMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1875
- Karnes v. CommonwealthSupreme Court of Virginia · 1919
- People v. WellsCalifornia Supreme Court · 1893
- People v. FlemingCalifornia Supreme Court · 1913
- Scripps v. ReillyMichigan Supreme Court · 1878
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3Cited by20 opinions
- United States v. James A. LewisCourt of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit · 1973
- Dingus v. CommonwealthSupreme Court of Virginia · 1929
- Compton v. CommonwealthSupreme Court of Virginia · 1949
- Bourne v. RichardsonSupreme Court of Virginia · 1922
- McAden v. StateSupreme Court of Florida · 1945
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