The Encyclopedic Digest of Virginia and West Virginia Reports: Being a Complete Encyclopedia and Digest of All Virginia and West Virginia Case Law Up to and Including Volume 103 Virginia Reports and Volume 55 West Virginia Reports, Том 4Thomas Johnson Michie Michie Company, 1906 |
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... tion of Criminal Statutes . cording to the degree of the offense , by fine or imprisonment , or both . " Ex parte Garrison , 36 W. Va . 686 , 15 S. E. 417. See ante , " Definitions and Na- ture , " I , A. Whatever Is Not Felony Is Mis ...
... tion of Criminal Statutes . cording to the degree of the offense , by fine or imprisonment , or both . " Ex parte Garrison , 36 W. Va . 686 , 15 S. E. 417. See ante , " Definitions and Na- ture , " I , A. Whatever Is Not Felony Is Mis ...
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... tion ; and therefore , it seems , the direc - in the state and death result in tion therein , that such prosecution another prosecution might be in Vir- should be instituted in the high court ginia , in the county of the blow . But of ...
... tion ; and therefore , it seems , the direc - in the state and death result in tion therein , that such prosecution another prosecution might be in Vir- should be instituted in the high court ginia , in the county of the blow . But of ...
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... tion for a criminal case must be in the county where the crime was committed with the exception that where property is stolen in one county and the thief has been found with the stolen prop- erty in his possession , in another county ...
... tion for a criminal case must be in the county where the crime was committed with the exception that where property is stolen in one county and the thief has been found with the stolen prop- erty in his possession , in another county ...
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... tion , ” V , J , 5 , a , ( 2 ) , ( g ) . See the titles HABEAS CORPUS ; JURISDIC- TION . " Anciently , the prisoner was allowed to choose his mode of trial . That was when there might be a trial by wager of battle or by jury . Now ...
... tion , ” V , J , 5 , a , ( 2 ) , ( g ) . See the titles HABEAS CORPUS ; JURISDIC- TION . " Anciently , the prisoner was allowed to choose his mode of trial . That was when there might be a trial by wager of battle or by jury . Now ...
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... tion it is not error to refuse to instruct the jury " that the character of the ac- cused , if good or bad , when proved , may always be received and weighed by them in favor of or against him , as the case may be , " and , in lieu ...
... tion it is not error to refuse to instruct the jury " that the character of the ac- cused , if good or bad , when proved , may always be received and weighed by them in favor of or against him , as the case may be , " and , in lieu ...
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Страница 231 - Be it therefore enacted, that whensoever the death of a person shall be caused by wrongful act, neglect or default, and the act, neglect or default is such as would (if death had not ensued) have entitled the party injured to maintain an action and recover damages in respect thereof...
Страница 445 - An officer de facto is one whose acts, though not those of a lawful officer, the law, upon principles of policy and justice, will hold valid so far as they involve the interests of the public and third persons, where the duties of the office were exercised...
Страница 173 - If an injury has resulted in consequence of a certain wrongful act or omission, but only through or by means of some intervening cause, from which last cause the injury followed as a direct and immediate consequence, the law will refer the damage to the last or proximate cause, and refuse to trace it to that which was more remote.
Страница 226 - ... notwithstanding the death of the person injured, and although the death shall have been caused under such circumstances as amount in law to felony.
Страница 654 - Governor, shall be impeached, displaced, resign, or die, or otherwise become incapable of performing the duties of the office, the President of the Senate shall act as Governor until the vacancy is filled or the disability removed...
Страница 239 - So a licensee, who enters on premises by permission only, without any enticement, allurement or inducement being held out to him by the owner or occupant, cannot recover damages for injuries caused by obstructions or pitfalls. He goes there at his own risk, and enjoys the license subject to its concomitant perils.
Страница 203 - Upon the point of the refusal of the court to set aside the verdict, on the ground that the damages were excessive...
Страница 6 - ... an infringement or privation of the civil rights which belong to individuals, considered merely as individuals; public wrongs, or crimes and misdemeanors, are a breach and violation of the public rights and duties due to the whole community, considered as a community, in its social aggregate capacity.
Страница 10 - It would be dangerous indeed to carry the principle, that a case which is within the reason or mischief of a statute, is within its provisions, so far as to punish a crime not enumerated in the statute, because it is of equal atrocity or of kindred character with those which are enumerated.
Страница 283 - To be recovered by Bill, Plaint or Information, in any Court of Record within this Government ; •wherein no Assign, Protection, Injunction or Wager of Law, shall be allowed or admitted of.