Sickel v. Commonwealth

Burks, j.,

delivered the opinion of the court.

[1] The plaintiff in error, hereinafter designated as the defendant, was indicted, tried and convicted for a violation of the prohibition law (Acts 1916, p. 215). The indictment contained three counts. The first count charges that the defendant “did unlawfully bring into the State of Vir.ginia, and into the said city of Richmond, from a point without the State of Virginia, ardent spirits for use in the State of Virginia.” The second count charges that the defendant “did unlawfully bring into the State of Virginia, and into the said city of…