Bond v. Commonwealth
Supreme Court of Virginia
Error to two judgments of the judge of circuit court of Bedford county, refusing writs of error to two judgments of the county court of said county, rendered March 9th, 1887, on two indictments for house-burning against George Bond, at the separate trials whereof the jury found him guilty, and in No. 1 fixed the term of imprisonment in the penitentiary at ten years, and in No. 2 fixed it at three years.
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Error to two judgments of the judge of circuit court of Bedford county, refusing writs of error to two judgments of the county court of said county, rendered March 9th, 1887, on two indictments for house-burning against George Bond, at the separate trials whereof the jury found him guilty, and in No. 1 fixed the term of imprisonment in the penitentiary at ten years, and in No. 2 fixed it at three years. During tlie proceedings the prisoner excepted to several rulings of the county court, which were the same in both cases. And he obtained from one of the judges of this court a writ of error…
1Opinion of the CourtFauntleroy, J.
On the twenty-fifth day of October, 1886, two indictments-were found' by the grand jury of Bedford county court against the plaintiff in error, George Bond—one charging him with burning, “feloniously and maliciously,” the tobacco-barn owned by Robert Hewitt, and at the same time also another tobacco-barn, owned by Moorman Parker, George Parker and Fanny Parker; and the other charging him with burning, “feloniously and maliciously,” the barns of E. T. Walker and O. P. Bell. The offences are charged to have been committed on the same day, viz: the fifteenth day of October, 1886. The said…
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