Barker v. Commonwealth

The accused has been convicted of the illegal sale of ardent spirits, sentenced to imprisonment for six months, and fined $500. He assigns and relies on two errors.

1. Before the trial began he moved the court to require the attorney for the Commonwealth to furnish him with a bill of particulars. As the indictment was in the form authorized by section 7 of the prohibition act (Acts 1918, p. 578), he was entitled to know specifically for which of the several • offenses with which he was charged he was to.be prosecuted. Pine & Scott v. Com’th, 121 Va. 812, 93 S. E. 652. In response to this…