Jordan v. Commonwealth

On May 31, 1919, the Corporation Court of the city of Newport News rendered judgment against the plaintiff in error, as surety in a recognizance, for $1,000.00 and the costs; Neither the recognizance, nor any of the proceedings thereon resulting in the judgment are made a part of the record in this case; nor is any complaint made thereof. We must assume, therefore, that they were regular. At a subsequent term of the court the plaintiff in error applied to said court for relief from said judgment, based on the following notice:

“To C. C. Berkeley, attorney for the Commonwealth:

“You are hereby…