Phillips v. Commonwealth
Supreme Court of Virginia
Error to judgment of the corporation court of city of Alexandria, rendered January 27, 1892, upon a verdict of guilty of murder in the first degree, returned by the jury at the trial of an indictment against the plain till in error, Jefferson Phillips, for the murder in the first degree of one George S. Smith, by which judgment the plaintiff in error was sentenced to be hanged by the neck until dead. Opinion states the case.
1Opinion of the CourtLacy, J.
This is a prosecution against the plaintiff in error for murder, and the conviction herein is the second conviction of the said plaintiff in error. The first conviction, which on the 27th day of January, 1892, was of murder in the first degree, *402and the accused was sentenced to be hanged; but on writ of error to this court on that conviction and sentence, on the 16th day of February, 1893, the said judgment was reversed and annulled, the verdict set aside, and a new trial awarded the plaintiff in error. TJpon a second trial in the said corporation court of the city of Alexandria, the judgment…
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