Rice v. . Ponder

Upon the last point, Murray v. Lackley, 6 N.C. 369, is a direct authority for the plaintiff. He was not only not rebound, and thus stood discharged, according to that case, but it is clear, from the memorandum of the State's attorney on the docket, that the proceeding was intended and considered to be at an end.

Upon the question of probable cause, the evidence produces on the minds of the members of the Court the same impression that it did on that of his Honor in the Superior Court. As the case stands, it is to be admitted that the defendant and his son and son-in-law, and it may be others,…