Vergine . SECOND SET

COLLECTION OF CASES

DECIDED BY THE

GENERAL COURT

OF

VIRGINIA,

CHIEFLY RELATING TO THE PENAL LAWS OF THE

COMMONWEALTH.

COMMENCING

IN THE YEAR 1789, AND ENDING IN 1814.

COPIED

FROM THB RECORDS OF SAD COURT,

WITH

EXPLANATORY NOTES,

BY JUDGES BROCKENBROUGH AND HOLMES.

PHILADELPHIA:
PUBLISHED BY JAMES WEBSTER, No. 318, MARKET STREET.

William Fry, Printer.

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Copy a
District of Pennsylvania, to wit:
******** BE IT REMEMBERED, that on the twenty-second
HAL day of June, in the thirty-ninth year of the independence

of the United States of America, A. D. 1815, James ******** Webster, of the said district, hath deposited in this office the title of a book the right whereof he claims as proprietor, in the words following, to wit:

“A Collection of Cases decided by the General Court of

Virginia, chiefly relating to the Penal Laws of the Common-
wealth. Commencing in the year 1789, and ending in 1814.
Copied from the Records of said Court, with Explanatory
Notes, by Judges Brockenbrough and Holmes.

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D. CALDWELL,
Clerk of the District of Pennsylvania.

TABLE OF CASES.

: A
John Alexander, The Commonwealth v.
Jacob Andrick, Barnet Hendrick v. -. -
Anonymous, - - -

156 .. 267 139, 144

John Bailey's Case, - - -
Henry Bedinger, The Commonwealth o. -
Anna Byrd, The Mutual Assurance Society v.

258 125 170

16

264 182 113

333

Arthur Campbell, William Edmiston v.
Peter Case o. The Commonwealth,
Samuel Clapham v. Lewis and Stover,
Benjamin Crawley, Abner Osborne v. -
George Creel, Isaac Morris v.
The Commonwealth v. Preeson Richards,

- v. John Proctor,
- v. Hugh Dowdall,

v. John Whealand, -
v. John Crane, -
v. William Williams, .
v. Arthur Campbell, -