Stover v. Commonwealth
Supreme Court of Virginia
Error to a judgment of the Hustings Court of the city of Staunton, rendered March 21, 1895, sentencing the plaintiff in error to confinement for life in the penitentiary. The first count of the .indictment charged the plaintiff in error with the larceny of £< one piece of bacon of the value of thirty-seven and a half cents.”
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Error to a judgment of the Hustings Court of the city of Staunton, rendered March 21, 1895, sentencing the plaintiff in error to confinement for life in the penitentiary. The first count of the .indictment charged the plaintiff in error with the larceny of £< one piece of bacon of the value of thirty-seven and a half cents.” The second and third counts of the indictment are as follows : “ And the jurors aforesaid, upon their oath aforesaid, do further present that the said Joshua H. Stover has been three times before convicted and sentenced for like offences in the United States, to-wit,…
1Opinion of the CourtBuchanan, J.
The accused was indicted for petit larceny in the Hustings Court of the city of Staunton. The indictment, in addition to the charge of petit larceny, contained the further allega tions that the accused had, before the commission of the offence for which he was then indicted, been convicted of like offences four times, and sentenced therefor; that after these four convictions, and prior to the commission of the offence charged in the indictment, he had been twice conAdcted and sentenced to confinement in the penitentiary in the United States for offences of like character.
*784The jury found that…
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