Jones v. Morris
Supreme Court of Virginia
Error to a judgment of the Law and Equity Oourt of the city of Richmond rendered February 16, 1898, in an action of trespass on the case wherein the defendant in error was the plaintiff, and the plaintiff in error was the defendant. The evidence sufficiently appears in the opinion of the court.
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Error to a judgment of the Law and Equity Oourt of the city of Richmond rendered February 16, 1898, in an action of trespass on the case wherein the defendant in error was the plaintiff, and the plaintiff in error was the defendant. The evidence sufficiently appears in the opinion of the court. The instructions given by the trial court, on the motion of the plaintiff, and notwithstanding the objection of the defendant, were as follows: Plaintiff’s Instruction No. 1. “ The court instructs the jury that the burden'of proof is upon the defendant to prove that he sought counsel with an honest…
1Opinion of the Court
Keith, P.,
delivered the opinion of the court.
On the 8th of April, 1897, A. O. Jones sued out a warrant of arrest, in the city of Newport News, charging that J. O. Morris of the city of Richmond in the said city “ did unlawfully, $40 in current money of the United States of the goods and chattels of the said A. O. Jones, of the value of $40, take, steal and carry away.” Upon this warrant Morris was arrested on the 10th of April of the same year; was, by the justice before whom the warrant was returnable, committed to a policeman of the city of Richmond, and was by the latter carried to the…
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