Hash v. Commonwealth
Supreme Court of Virginia
Error to judgment of circuit, court of Grayson county, rendered October 31, 1890, whereby the plaintiff in error, Columbus Hash, was sentenced to the penitentiary for six years, in accordance with the verdict of the jury found on an indictment charging him with the murder of Anderson Rutherford.
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Error to judgment of circuit, court of Grayson county, rendered October 31, 1890, whereby the plaintiff in error, Columbus Hash, was sentenced to the penitentiary for six years, in accordance with the verdict of the jury found on an indictment charging him with the murder of Anderson Rutherford. On the 3d day of June, 1890, Columbus Hash and Rowan Hash were jointly indicted in the county court of Grayson county for the murder of Anderson Rutherford, in said county, and, on their arraignment in said county court, the prisoner, Columbus Hash, demanded to be tried in the circuit court of said…
1Opinion of the CourtRichardson, J.
(after stating the case as above), delivered the opinion of the court.
The several objections taken by the plaintiff in error to certain rulings of the trial-court are comprehended in the one *175question, Did. the court correctly propound the law, as applicable to the. evidence in the case, as respects the ruling complained of? '
The first assignment of error is to the action of the court overruling the prisoner’s motion to quash the indictment. The objection to the indictment is that it is insensible and uncertain as to the number of persons charged with the offence set forth. The record, aside…
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