Drier v. Commonwealth

Citations

• 89 Va. 529
• 16 S.E. 672
• 1893 Va. LEXIS 69

Syllabus

<p>1. Criminal Proceedings—Code, § 4016, construed.—This section, providing that a defendant, upon arraignment in the county court for a felony, may demand to be tried in the circuit court, does not warrant the inference that it is the duty of the court or clerk to inform him of his right to be tried in the latter court.</p> <p>2. Idem—Venire facias—-Code, § 4018, construed.—This section, providing that the writ of venire facias in case of felony shall command the officer to summon twenty persons, “ to be taken from a list to be furnished by the court ”—</p> <p>Held :</p> <p>Not to make it improper for the number of persons to be contained in such list to exceed twenty.</p> <p>3. Idem—Sand's Case, 21 Gratt. 871; Mitchell’s Case, 33 Gratt. 845, followed ; Vawter’s Case, 87 Va. 245, distinguished.</p>