Penn v. Smyth

In this case we are called upon to review an order of the Hustings Court of the City of Richmond, Part II, which denied the prayer of a petition for a writ of habeas corpus by which the plaintiff in error, who was the petitioner and hereinafter will be so referred to, challenged the validity of a judgment of the Hustings Court of said city, (Part I).

The background of the case and the questions raised by the petition are concisely set forth in the opinion of the learned judge of the trial court as follows:

“The petitioner, John Henry Penn, together with W. L. Crutchfield and Joseph Hubbard, was…