Supreme Court of Virginia September 20, 1900 (Montgomery v. Commonwealth)

Cardwell, J.,

delivered the opinion of the court.

Plaintiff in error was convicted in the County Court of Rock-bridge county of maliciously and feloniously cutting and wounding one William E. Davidson, and sentenced, in accordance with *854the verdict of the jury, to confinement in the penitentiaiy for a term of four years, but upon a writ of error from this court, he was awarded a new trial.