Hall v. Commonwealth
Supreme Court of Virginia
Error to judgment of corporation court of Danville, rendered October 13th, 1883, on an indictment against Robert Hall, for the larceny of a horse, and sentencing him to three years’ imprisonment in the penitentiary. To this. judgment Hall obtained a writ of error and supersedeas.
1Opinion of the CourtFauntleroy, J.
The prisoner, Robert Hall, was indicted; tried and convicted upon the charge of horse stealing.
The record shows the following certificate of facts proved upon the trial: On the 9th day of May, 1883, the horse of P. B. Gravely, a well-known tobacconist, was tied in the open lot to the rear of the “ Cabell Warehouse,” Danville, Va. Robert Hall, the defendant, who was very much addicted to liquor, had driven the wagon of David Hardy to Danville, a distance of eighteen miles, with a load of tobacco, which, had been sold on the said 9th of May, at the said Cabell Warehouse. About 1:30 o’clock P.…
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