Stoneman v. Commonwealth
Supreme Court of Virginia
I11 December 1873 Leftwich Stoneman was indicted in the County court of Carroll county for the murder of Annuel Edwards, Jr., and was sent to the Circuit coui’t of the county for trial. In April 1874 the trial came on, and he was found guilty by the jury, and the term of his confinement in the penitentiary was fixed at nine years, and the court sentenced him in accordance with the verdict.
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I11 December 1873 Leftwich Stoneman was indicted in the County court of Carroll county for the murder of Annuel Edwards, Jr., and was sent to the Circuit coui’t of the county for trial. In April 1874 the trial came on, and he was found guilty by the jury, and the term of his confinement in the penitentiary was fixed at nine years, and the court sentenced him in accordance with the verdict. On the trial, after the commonwealth had closed the testimony on her part, and bad shown that the deceased and Ollie Stoneman had been married, the prisoner offered in evidence the record of a suit for a…
1Opinion of the CourtStaples, J.
The prisoner was indicted in the Circuit court of Carroll county for the murder of Annuel Edwards. At the April term 1874 he was tried and convicted of murder in the second degree, and the period of his confinement in the penitentiary fixed at nine years.
During the progress of the trial the prisoner offered in evidence the record of a suit for a divorce between the deceased and Ollie Edwards, the former wife of the deceased, and also the sister of the prisoner. To-the introduction of this evidence the commonwealth objected; and the court sustained the objection as to all the record, except…
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