Brown v. Commonwealth
Supreme Court of Virginia
Error to the judgment of the judge of circuit court- of Franklin county, refusing a writ of .error to judgment of the county court of said county, rendered July 23d, 1890, on a verdict of guilty, on an indictment against plaintiff in error, one William Brown, for arson, whereby he was sentenced to be hanged by the neck until dead. Opinion states the case.
1Opinion of the CourtFauntleroy, J.
As appears by a transcript of the record of the said county court, plaintiff in error took and tendered several bills of exceptions to the rulings of the said'county court: that he, the plaintiff in error, petitioned the judge of the circuit court of Franklin county, for a writ of error to the said judgment of "the said county court of Franklin county, and to award to him *216a new trial; which said petition for a writ of error to the said judgment of the county court of Franklin county, and for a new trial, was refused by the said judge of the circuit court of Franklin county. The case is here…
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