Harris v. Commonwealth

Kelly, P.,

delivered the opinion of the court.

Upon an indictment for robbery Harris was tried, convicted and sentenced to the penitentiary for the term of eight years.

[1, 2] 1. As a witness in his own behalf he undertook to give an acount of his whereabouts and occupation from the year 1908 until the date of the robbery, and in doing so he testified with apparent emphasis that during all of that period he had been working for a firm in the town of Manassas, where the crime was committed, with the exception of a year when he was working on the streets of the town, and the further exception of a…