Whalen v. Commonwealth
Supreme Court of Virginia
Argued at Staunton. Decided at Richmond. Error to judgment of the hustings court of the city of Staun-ton, rendered July 10, 1893, in a prosecution against Percy Whalen, whereby the prisoner was sentenced to the penitentiary for a term of five years for larceny from the person. Opinion states the case.
1Opinion of the Court
Lewis, P.,
delivered the opinion of the court.
The prisoner was indicted and convicted of larceny from the person, and sentenced, in conformity with the verdict, to imprisonment in the penitentiary for five years. The indictment charges the larceny of divers United States treasury and national bank notes, and also “ one paper purporting to be a check for the payment of one hundred and twenty-five dollars, of the value of one hundred and twenty-five dollars, the goods and chattels of one H. A. Picketts, then and there being upon the person of the said Picketts.”
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