Rhodes v. Commonwealth
Supreme Court of Virginia
Error to judgment of circuit court of Rockingham county, rendered June 23d, 1882, affirming judgment of county •court of said county, on an indictment against James M. Ehodes for perjury, sentencing him to pay fine of $100 and costs of prosecution, and to confinement in jail for twelve months.
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Error to judgment of circuit court of Rockingham county, rendered June 23d, 1882, affirming judgment of county •court of said county, on an indictment against James M. Ehodes for perjury, sentencing him to pay fine of $100 and costs of prosecution, and to confinement in jail for twelve months. The alleged purjury was that, whereas said Ehodes swore before justices examining W. E. Miller on charge of larceny of bacon, that said Miller offered to sell him bacon on 15th November, 1875. Ehodes afterwards, at ■the trial before the court, swore falsely and corruptly that he did not so state, but…
1Opinion of the CourtLacy, J.
The record shows the case to be as follows: A suit was Instituted in the circuit court of EocMngham county on the 1st day of August, 1877, by one Wm. E. Miller against the plaintiff in error and two other persons, to recover damages for an alleged malicious prosecution of the said Miller by "the said Ehodes, the defendant, and others, in that the said ■defendant, on the 18th day of May, 1877, at the county of Page, in the State of Virginia, appeared before one John Welfley, a justice of the peace for the said county of Page, and falsely and maliciously, and without any reasonble or probable…
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