Williams v. Commonwealth

Keith, P.,

delivered the opinion of the court.

This case is before us upon the petition of Charles Williams for a writ of error to the judgment of the Corporation Court of the city of Norfolk rendered on the 23d day of June, 1896, by which he was sentenced to be hanged for the murder of one George Bess. The petition presents two assignments of error:

First. It is alleged that the record fails to show that, when the prisoner renewed his motion to set aside the verdict of the jury and grant him a new trial, he was personally present, in that it fails to recite that the petitioner was remanded to…