Johnson v. Commonwealth

The plaintiff in error was proceeded against by information filed by the attorney for the Commonwealth in the Circuit- Court of Orange county. The information, so far as it is material, reads as follows: . “* * * that Sanford Johnson and Hester Lewis on the 6th day of November, in the year 1927, in the said county of Orange, did unlawfully keep, store and have in their possession ardent spirits against the peace and dignity of the Commonwealth of Virginia.

“And the attorney for the Commonwealth aforesaid, *975who prosecutes as aforesaid, in the name and by the authority aforesaid, and upon the…