Walker v. Commonwealth
Supreme Court of Virginia
In July 1876 Charles Walker was indicted in the ■county court of Roanoke, for entering a dwelling house with intent to steal, and stealing therefrom certain articles described in the indictment. He was tried at the October term of the court; when the jury found him guilty, and fixed the term of his imprisonment in the penitentiary at five years; and sentence was rendered against him in accordance with the verdict.
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In July 1876 Charles Walker was indicted in the ■county court of Roanoke, for entering a dwelling house with intent to steal, and stealing therefrom certain articles described in the indictment. He was tried at the October term of the court; when the jury found him guilty, and fixed the term of his imprisonment in the penitentiary at five years; and sentence was rendered against him in accordance with the verdict. Upon a writ of error to the. circuit court of the •county, the judgment was affirmed; and Walker then obtained a writ of error to this court. The case is fully stated in the opinion…
1Opinion of the Court
Moncure, P.,
delivered the opinion of the court.'
This is a writ of error to a judgment of the circuit court of Roanoke county, affirming a judgment of the county court of said county, convicting the plaintiff in error, Charles Walker, of felony. He is indicted for-an offence defined in sections 12 and 13, of chapter 188, page 1195, of the Code, which, so far as it is material to state them here, are, in effect, as follows: If' a person shall, in the night, enter without breaking, or shall in the day time break and enter, a dwelling-house, &c., with intent to commit larceny, &c., he shall be…
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