Hall v. Commonwealth
Supreme Court of Virginia
Error to judgment of circuit court of Montgomery county, rendered 30th May, 1884, on an indictment against S. D. Hall, for the murder of Charles A. Bowyer, on 25th September, 1872; by which judgment, the jury by their verdict having found said TIall guilty of murder in the first degree, as charged in the indictment, the said court sentenced the said Hall to be hanged by the neck until dead.
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Error to judgment of circuit court of Montgomery county, rendered 30th May, 1884, on an indictment against S. D. Hall, for the murder of Charles A. Bowyer, on 25th September, 1872; by which judgment, the jury by their verdict having found said TIall guilty of murder in the first degree, as charged in the indictment, the said court sentenced the said Hall to be hanged by the neck until dead. Said Hall was indicted in the county court, but upon his arraignment, he elected to be tried in the circuit court of said county, and was there tried with the result aforesaid. It appears from the record…
1Opinion of the Court
Lewis, P.,
delivered the opinion of the court.
The statute relating to the summoning and selecting of juroi’s in cases of felony, as it stood in the Code -of 1860, chapter 208, has been amended, and the law, as it now is, provides as follows: “3. The writ of venire facias, in a case of felony, other than where the punishment may be death, shall command the officer to whom it is directed to summon sixteen persons of his county or corporation to be taken from a list to be furnished him by the judge of his county or corporation, residing remote from the place where the offence is charged to have…
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