Puryear v. Commonwealth
Supreme Court of Virginia
Error to judgment of circuit court of Prince George county, rendered May 22, 1886, sentencing Holmes E. Puryear, wliom a jury liad found guilty on an indictment for the murder, in the first degree, of his wife, Emma L. Puryear, to be hanged by the neck until dead. From this Judgment, upon exceptions to various rulings of the trial court, prisoner obtained from one of the judges of this court a writ of error and supersedeas. Opinion states the case.
1Opinion of the CourtLacy, J.
The indictment was for murder by poison, and was found in the county court of Dinwiddle county. When arraigned in that court, the plaintiff in error demanded, as his right was, to be tried in the circuit court of that county, and the case was accordingly so removed to the circuit court of Dinwiddie county. In that court he moved the court to cause a venire to be summoned from another county to try his case, because of the prejudice existing against him in that county. This the circuit court refused to do until the effort had been made to obtain a jury, from the venire already summoned, free…
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