Wadley v. Commonwealth
Supreme Court of Virginia
Error to a judgment of the County Court of Wythe county, rendered December 18, 1899, whereby the prisoner was sentenced to the penitentiary for one year for embezzlement. The Circuit Court refused a writ of error, and it was awarded by this court-.
1Opinion of the CourtHarrison, J.
The plaintiff in error was tried and convicted in the County Court of Wythe for embezzlement- of the assets of the Wytheville Insurance and Banking Company.
During the trial, numerous exceptions were taken to the rulings of the court, which we are now asked to review.
Before his arraignment the prisoner filed two pleas, setting, forth that the indictment against him was found upon illegal and inadmissible evidence, and praying that the same might, for that reason, be quashed. This motion was properly overruled.
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