Supreme Court of Virginia January 15, 1931 (Smith v. Commonwealth)

Holt, J.,

delivered the opinion of the court.

Garland Smith, twenty-two years old, is a native of Catawba county, North Carolina, and resided there until he came with his parents in September, 1929, to Mecklenburg county, Virginia, to live upon a farm which they had rented.

On Sunday, December 29, 1929, Bernard A. Puryear, a deputy sheriff, and officers J. T. Chaney, Mack Tuck, Stover Terry, C. O.