Commonwealth v. M'Clenegan
This text of 1 Va. 155 (Commonwealth v. M'Clenegan) is published on Counsel Stack Legal Research, covering General Court of Virginia primary law. Counsel Stack provides free access to over 12 million legal documents including statutes, case law, regulations, and constitutions.
Opinion
THE point adjourned in this case sufficiently appear-, " " from the opinion of the court.
June 11th, 1808, present judges Tyler, Nelson, White, Stuart, Brooke and Holmes. “ The court are unanimous- “ ly of opinion that where an indictment or presentment [156]*156is found by a grand jury against any person for a mis- “ demesnor to which the law has affixed an infamous “ or corporal punishment, the court before whom such “ indictment or presentment is found, may, in its discre- “ tion, award a capias in the first instance; and that upon “ indictments and presentments of an inferior nature, “ such court ought, after two venire faciases have been returned not found, to award a capias.”
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