Case ID: va_4/html/0201-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "PER CURIAM.", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

The Commonwealth v. Thomas P. Harrison and Others.
    Writ of Error — Right of Commonwealth to. — No writ of Error lies for the Commonwealth, In a Gaming-, or any other Criminal Case.
    The Defendants were presented at Stafford County Court, for unlawful gaming : an Information was filed against them, to which they demurred, and the County Court rendered judgment on the demurrer, in behalf of the Defendants. The Attorney for the Commonwealth applied to a Judge of the General Court, (White,) in vacation, for a Writ of Error, which was awarded by him. At the ensuing Term *of the Superior Court, the Defendants moved the Court to dismiss the Writ of Error, as improvidently issued : and the point of Law arising upon that motion, was adjourned to this Court.
    
      
      Writ of Error — Right of Commonwealth to. — Por the proposition that in a criminal case the commonwealth is not entitled to a writ of error, the principal case is cited and approved in U. S. v. Sanges. 12 Sup. Ct. Rep. 610, 144 U. S. 310. See also, 6 Va. Law Reg. 245; monographic note on “Appeals.”
    
   PER CURIAM.

“ The Court is unanimously of opinion, that the Writ of Error improvidently issued on the part of the Commonwealth, because no Writ of Error lies in a Criminal Case for the Commonwealth.”