Case Name: George Midget Alias William Johnson v. Commonwealth
Court: Supreme Court of Appeals of Virginia
Jurisdiction: Virginia
Decision Date: 1907-11-13
Citations: 107 Va. 846
Docket Number: 
Parties: George Midget Alias William Johnson v. Commonwealth.
Judges: 
Reporter: Virginia Reports
Volume: 107
Pages: 846–847

Head Matter:
Richmond.
George Midget Alias William Johnson v. Commonwealth.
November 13, 1907.
1. Bills of Exception—When to be Signed—Appeal and Error.—Bills of exception not signed at the term at which the opinions and judgments of the court excepted to were announced, or in the vacation of said court within thirty days thereafter, or at any time at which the parties by consent entered of record at said term had agreed . they should be signed, but signed at a subsequent term of said court, are not taken according to the statute, and cannot be considered by this court.
Error to a judgment of the Corporation Court of the city of Alexandria.
Writ of error dismissed.
The opinion states the case.
Howard W. Smith and R. D. Brumback, for the plaintiff in error.
Attorney-General Wm. A. Anderson, for the commonwealth.

Opinion:
By the court.
This day came again the parties by counsel, and the court having maturely considered the motion of the commonwealth to dismiss the writ of error awarded in this case, and the answer of the defendant thereto, and it now appearing to the court that the several bills of exception of the plaintiff in error were not signed by the judge of the corporation court of the city of Alexandria at the term at which the opinions and judgment of said court to which exception is taken were announced, or in the vacation of said court within thirty days after the end of such term, or at a time at which the parties by consent entered of record at said term had agreed that they should be so signed, but were signed by the said judge at a subsequent term of said corporation court, the court is of opinion that the said writ of error was improvidently awarded.
It is therefore considered that the said writ of error be dismissed, and that the commonwealth recover of the plaintiff in error her costs by her about her defense herein expended. Which is ordered to be forthwith certified to the said corporation court of the city of Alexandria.
Writ of error dismissed.