Read v. Commonwealth

Lewis, P.,

delivered tjie opinion of the court.

This is a writ of error to a judgment of the circuit court of Tazewell county, purporting to affirm a judgment of the county court of that county, sentencing the plaintiff in error to pay a tine of $300, and to be confined in jail ten days, in a prosecution for a felony.

There is a recital in the record that, after overruling the defendant’s motion to set aside the verdict, the county court “pronounced judgment upon the defendant in accordance with the verdict,” and that thereupon execution of the judgment was suspended for sixty days to enable the…