General Court of Virginia June 15, 1841 (Commonwealth v. Semmes)

PER CURIAM.

The court is of opinion, that the testimony' in this case shews, that the petitioner has contracted a painful and dangerous‘disease, since his confinement in jail, which disease was the consequence of his having been for a long time confined in a very small, very damp, and very badly ventilated room, and which disease had reduced him so low at the late term of the circuit superior