State v. . Hardee
Supreme Court of North Carolina
INDICTMENT for burning a gin-house, &c., tried at Spring Term, 1880, of Pitt Superior Court, before Avery, J. Verdict of guilty, judgment, appeal bj the defendant.
1Opinion of the CourtSmith, C. J.
The defendant is charged in two counts of the indictment, first, with maliciously and unlawfully setting fire to and burning the gin-house of J. J. Laughing-house, with intent to injure and defraud him, and secondly, with the like burning of his granary, and was upon trial found guilty.
During the examination of the witnesses, whose testimony is set out in detail, one Laura Slade for the state testified to a conversation between the defendant and herself, in which she promised the defendant to marry him if he would tell about the burning of the gin-house, and defendant said that himself and…
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