Commonwealth v. Fowler , 4 Va. 35 ( 1785 )

The certificate to the general court was as follows,

“It is ordered to be certified, to the said general court, as the opinion of this court, that the condition annexed to the letters of pardon granted the said John Fowler by Patrick Henry esquire, governour or chief magistrate of this commonwealth, is illegal ; and that thereby the said letters of pardon are absolute.”