Sawyers v. Commonwealth
Supreme Court of Virginia
Error to judgment of circuit court of Alleghany county, rendered March 27th, 1891, affirming judgment of county court of said county, rendered November lOtli, 1890, sentencing John Sawyers, the plaintiff in error, to confinement in the penitentiary for three years, in accordance with the verdict of the jury at trial of an indictment against him for the felonious and malicious burning of a certain building in said county, and the property of one John ~W. Jennings.
1Opinion of the Court
Lewis, P.,
delivered the opinion of the court.
The first assignment of error that we will consider, raises the question whether or not the county court erred in permitting the argumeut before the jury to be concluded, against the prisoner’s objection, by P. L. Parrish, an attorney employed by Jennings to aid the attorney for the commonwealth. It is contended that in a criminal prosecution, wherein counsel are employed by private parties to prosecute, the accused has the right to answer any argument that- may be made to the jury by such counsel, and that it was error in the present case to…
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