Parrish v. Commonwealth

Citations

• 81 Va. 1
• 1884 Va. LEXIS 2

Syllabus

<p>1. Criminal Jurisdiction and Proceedings—Justifiable Homicider— Definition.—Where one in defence of his person, habitation or property, kills another, who manifestly intends and endeavors by violence or surprise to commit a forcible or atrocious felony upon either, such killing is justifiable homicide. And in such case, the justification of the prisoner must depend on the circumstances as they appear to_him.</p> <p>2. Idem—Dvidence—Prisoner's admissions.—If the prosecution uses prisoner’s statements, the whole must be taken together, and one part cannot be selected and another left out.</p> <p>3. Idem—Cropping—Ownership of crop—Larceny.—Where land owner contracts with one to crop his land and to give him part of the crop after paying all advances, and the crop has not been divided, such cropper is not a tenant, but a mere employe, and the ownership of the entire crop is in the land owner, and if cropper forcibly, or against consent of land owner, takes the crop from the possession of the latter, such taking is larceny, robbery, or other offence, according to the circumstances of the case.</p> <p>4. Idem—Case at bar.—A case of justifiable homicide.</p>