State v. . Covington
Supreme Court of North Carolina
INDICTMENT for forcible trespass, tried before his Honor, Judge Button, at the Fall Term, 1873, of the Superior Court of RICHMOND County.
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INDICTMENT for forcible trespass, tried before his Honor, Judge Button, at the Fall Term, 1873, of the Superior Court of RICHMOND County. The indictment charged the defendant with a forcible trespass on premises in posession of James W. and Thomas K. Farmer, the latter of whom was the only witness. lie testified, that he and his brother James W. had some land rented in 1872, and hired the defendant to work for the year ; they were to give him $210 in inonej7, and two acres of old land and as much more as he could clear around his house, (to cultivate for himself.) Defendant worked until the…
1Opinion of the Court
ByNüM, J.
The counsel for the defendant, asked the court below, to instruct the jury that in order to make the defendant guilty, under the indictment, he must have entered in such way, and with such an exhibition of force as was calculated to excite terror and to intimidate; and further, that even if the defendant had abandoned the crop on the two acres, there wras evidence of sufficient force, to render him guilty of forcible trespass.
His Honor refused to give these instructions, but charged the jury, “that if the defendant abandoned the crop on the two acres, there was evidence of sufficient…
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