People's Pilot, Volume 4, Number 39, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 March 1895 — Life Sentence for a Trifle. [ARTICLE]

Life Sentence for a Trifle.

Staunton, Va., March 14.—The jurv in the case of The Commonwealth vs. Joshua Stover, indicted for stealing cents worth of bacon, which has beer, on trial in the Hustings court, has found him guilty and fixed his punishment at one year in the penitentiary. ■ This is Stover’s third conviction for crime, and he will, according to the Virginia law, be sentenced for life.