Thomas v. Commonwealth
Supreme Court of Virginia
In August 1872, the grand jury of the Corporation court of Lynchburg indicted Mike Thomas for stealing a pair of pants of the value of $2.25. And they further stated in the indictment that Mike Thomas was on the 27th of January 1872, tried and convicted for a like offence in the Mayor’s court for the city of Lynchburg, and in said court was sentenced to four months confinement in the city jail; setting out the offence.
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In August 1872, the grand jury of the Corporation court of Lynchburg indicted Mike Thomas for stealing a pair of pants of the value of $2.25. And they further stated in the indictment that Mike Thomas was on the 27th of January 1872, tried and convicted for a like offence in the Mayor’s court for the city of Lynchburg, and in said court was sentenced to four months confinement in the city jail; setting out the offence. On the trial the jury rendered a verdict as follows: “We the jury find the prisoner guilty as charged in the within indictment;” and the court sentenced the prisoner to be…
1Opinion of the CourtAnderson, J.
This is an indictment for petit larceny, with an alle*914gation that the accused, before the committing the °fi"ence charged, had been convicted and sentenced in the mayor’s court of the city of Lynchburg for a like fr, ottence.
The court is of opinion that the mayor of the city of Lynchburg, by virtue of the 6th section of chapter 48 of the Code of 1849, being a justice of the peace, was invested by the 1st section of “An act to extend the jurisdiction of police justices and justices of the peace in certain cases,” approved March 30, 1871, with concurrent jurisdiction of all petit larcenies with…
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