Cool v. Commonwealth
Supreme Court of Virginia
Error to a judgment of the County Court of Dickenson county rendered December 14, 1895, on an indictment for breaking and entering a “mill house” with intent to commit larceny therein. This was an indictment for breaking and entering a “mill-house” with intent to commit larceny therein. The indictment, which is set forth in the opinion of the court, left blank the date at which the offence was charged to have been committed.
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Error to a judgment of the County Court of Dickenson county rendered December 14, 1895, on an indictment for breaking and entering a “mill house” with intent to commit larceny therein. This was an indictment for breaking and entering a “mill-house” with intent to commit larceny therein. The indictment, which is set forth in the opinion of the court, left blank the date at which the offence was charged to have been committed. There was no demurrer to the indictment, and no bill of exception taken to any ruling of the trial court. The record states that, after the jury had rendered their…
1Opinion of the Court
Keith, P.,
delivered the opinion of the court.
The grana jury of Dickenson county at the July term of the county court of the year 1895, found an indictment against William Cool, that he “on the .— day of--, in the year one thousand eight hundred and--, in the said county, and within the jurisdiction of the said County Court of the county of Dickenson, did then and there feloniously break and enter a certain mill-house, the property of Noah B. Sykes, and not adjoined to or occupied with the dwelling-house of the said Noah B. Sykes, with the intent to commit larceny therein, and one and one-half…
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