132 Va. 674 | Va. | 1922
after making the foregoing statement, delivered the following opinion of the court:
This case was argued orally before us, along with the cases of Rudd v. Commonwealth, post, p. 783, 111 S. E. 270, and Walker v. Commonwealth, post, p; 819, 111 S. E. 274, decided at this term of court.
1. The first and fourth assignments of error in the instant case (the first concerning the motion for a change of venue, and the fourth concerning an instruction asked by the accused and refused, but modified, land given by the court as modified) are precisely the same as the first and fourth assignments of error dealt with in the case last mentioned, of Walker v. Commonwealth, and we here refer to what is said in the opinion of the court in that ease for the details of our holding in this upon such first and fourth assignments of error. It is sufficient to say here that we find no merit in either of such assignments.
2. The second assignment of error in the instant case concerns the refusal of the court to quash the venire facias by which the jurors were summoned to try the felony case of Joe Foster.
This is the same venire facias which is involved in the
The assignment of error now under consideration is that the court erred in refusing to quash the venire facias last mentioned “for the reason that the said venire facias was not issued in accordance with sections 5992 and 5993 of che Code of Virginia, in that a greater number of tales-men were summoned than provided by section 5992.”
It will be observed that this is a different assignment of error from those in the Rudd and Walker Cases on the subject of the venire; but it is equally without merit, although for a somewhat different reason.
There remains but one other assignment of error for our consideration in the instant case, and that is this:
There was other testimony for the Commonwealth, however, bearing on this subject-. That testimony was given by this same witness, Cohen, and was to the following effect: Cohen testified that, on January 1, 1921, the very next day after the purchase of the drink of liquor by him of Foy in the restaurant above mentioned, as stated in his testimony objected to, he, Cohen, came again to the same restaurant and found the accused there and acting as if he were the proprietor of the business. That witness engaged the accused in conversation, and during the conversation the witness saw whiskey being sold. That witness asked the accused if witness “could have a bottle of com whiskey,” and the accused “called O. V. Foy, and Foy came over and brought the bottle of whiskey for him,” and witness paid Foy $4.00 for it in the presence of the accused. That the accused told witness that he, the accused, “was the owner of the place, and that the name of O. V. Foy was just a blind * * *.”
Such being the evidence, it is plain that the assignment of error under consideration has no merit in it.
The case will be affirmed.
Affirmed.