6 Va. 116
Decided February 17, 1818
Supreme Court of Virginia · decided 1818-02-17
IN this case, a petition was presented to this Court by Philip Norborne Nicholas Attorney General of the Commonwealth, on behalf of said Commonwealth, to be allowed an appeal from a decree of the Superior Court of Chancery for the Richmond District, dismissing a bill exhibited by the Petitioner against Andrew Broaddus and Jane C. Broaddus, in conformity wiih the 13th section of the Act of 1792, concerning incestuous marriages; edition of 1794, 1803 and 1814, p. 195.
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¶1The Court of Appeals, considering the decree as involving a constitutional question, granted the appeal, but, after argument by Peyton Randolph and Nicholas for *117&e appellant, and Leigh for the appellees, dismissed it as improviclently awarded; this Court having no jurisdiction in criminal cases.
¶2See Bedinger v. the Commonwealth, 3 Call, 461-475.