Garner v. Commonwealth

Keith, P.,

delivered the opinion of the court.

Garner was indicted in the county court of Prince William for burning in the nighttime a mill house, the property of O. S. Davis. Upon this indictment he was tried, found guilty, and sentenced to a term of three years in the penitentiary. During the progress of the trial a number of exceptions were taken to the rulings of the county court, and all of them are relied upon in the petition to this court. None of these *459assignments of error are of sufficient importance to require discussion, except that which is taken to the action,of the trial court in…