Benton v. Commonwealth
Supreme Court of Virginia
Error to judgment of circuit court of Loudoun county, refusing a writ of error to judgment of the county court of said county, rendered at its November term, 1892, whereby the plaintiff in error, D. B. Benton, was, in accordance with the verdict of the jury in the trial of an indictment against him for breaking and entering a house in the night-time, with intent to steal, sentenced to'two years’ confinement in the penitentiary. Opinion states the case.
1Opinion of the Court
Lewis, P.,
delivered the opinion of the court.
*571The plaintiff in error, D. W. Benton, was jointly indicted with Herbert Wilson and John Benton for house-breaking. The indictment charges a breaking and entering, in the nighttime, with intent to commit larceny, and the actual larceny of a quantity of mfeat, of the value of fifty dollars.
Upon this indictment Wilson was separately tried and convicted, the verdict being in these words : “ We, the jury, find the prisoner, Herbert Wilson, guilty as indicted, and fix the penalty at twelve months in the county jail, and a fine of five dollars”; and there…
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