Supreme Court of Virginia March 13, 1871 (Commonwealth v. Chalkley)

Joynes, J.

To entitle the defendant in error to re•cover in this case, it was incumbent on him to establish that his claim rests upon a “legal ground;” in -other words, that it could -be sustained upon principles •of law or equity. Code, ch. 45, § 12, ch. 46, §§ 1-3. The question before us is, therefore, a legal one purely; beyond that view of the case we cannot go.