Hardy v. Commonwealth
Supreme Court of Virginia
Error to a judgment of the Circuit Court of Hansemond county.
1Opinion of the CourtCardwell, J.
Samuel Hardy was indicted in the Circuit Court of Hansemond county for the murder of Tiberius Gracchus Jones (spoken of in the record as “Grae.” Jones), was found guilty of murder in the first degree, and sentenced to be electrocuted. To this judgment of the circuit court a writ of error was awarded by a judge of this court.
It appears that the deceased, in company with his next door neighbor, one J. H. Joyner, returned on the railroad train, from a trip to Suffolk, to the town of Holland, near which town, in Hansemond county he lived, a little after nine o’clock P. M. October 26, 1908, and…
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