State v. . Ketchey
Supreme Court of North Carolina
INDICTMENT, for Rape, tried before Albertson, J., at a Special (August) Term, 1873, of Rowan Superior Court. The objection taken to the rulings of his Honor, and the points raised on the trial below, are fully set out in the opinion of Justice Settle. The prisoner was found guilty. Motion for á new trial; motion refused. Judgment and appeal.
1Opinion of the CourtSettle, J.
The learned counsel for the defence have made many excepeions, not only to the constitutionality and regularity of the Court which tried the prisoner, but also to the rulings of his Honor on the trial.
As some of these exceptions were abandoned, and others not pressed in this Court, we shall notice only such as were urged, and which seem to require some comment.
1st. It is insisted in view of Art. 4, sec. 14 of the Constitution, that the Legislature had no right to pass the act of 1868- 68, ch. 278, and the amendatory act of 1871-72, chap. 15, under which the Governor appointed the special term…
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