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36 Va. 636

Morris v. Commonwealth

General Court of Virginia

Decided December 15, 1838

General Court of Virginia · decided 1838-12-15

Petition for writ of error to a judgment of the circuit superiour court of law and chancery for Chesterfield county. The petitioner, being indicted at October term 1838 for larceny, was tried, convicted, and sentenced to imprisonment for two years in the penitentiary.

Decided 1838-12-15

Smith, J.

¶1delivered the resolution of the general court.—It is deemed unnecessary to decide whether the examining court erred in refusing to continue the case on the motion of the prisoner, or whether such an error, if committed, could in any way avail the prisoner in the circuit court: this court being unanimously of opinion that the plea of errors in arrest of judgment could not be sustained, inasmuch as it suggests matter making no part of the record, but matter which, if the prisoner could have availed himself of it at all, should have been taken advantage of by a plea in abatement, or a motion to quash. Cohen’s case, 2 Va. Cas. 158. William Angel’s case, Id. 231.

¶2Writ of error refused.

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