Nicholas v. Commonwealth
Supreme Court of Virginia
Error to a judgment of the Circuit Court of Henrico county, rendered December 21, 1893, sentencing the prisoner to be hanged.
1Opinion of the Court
Harrison, J.:
Philip N. Nicholas was indicted in the County Court of Henrico, on the 24th day of December, 1892, charged with the murder of James 'Mills, and William Judson Wilkerson. He elected to be tried in the Circuit Court of Henrico county, and, after a protracted trial in that court, was, on the 11th day of October, 1893, found guilty of murder in the first degree, and on the 21st day of December, 1893, was sentenced to be hung, from this judgment of the Circuit Court he obtained a writ of error to this court.
The numerous exceptions taken to the ruling of the Circuit Court are so…
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