State v. Morgan
Supreme Court of North Carolina
INDICTMENT against Elizabeth Morgan and Samuel Ford, heard by Jiidge R. B. Peebles and a jury, at August Term, 1904, of the Superior Court of Union County. From a verdict of guilty and judgment thereon the defendants appealed.
1Opinion of the Court
Walkee,, I.
The defendants were indicted for burning a barn or granary, the property of Henry Dry. There were two counts in the bill. In the first it was .alleged that Samuel N. Ford willfully, wantonly and feloniously set fire to the barn, and in the second that Elizabeth Morgan and her husband, John E. Morgan, unlawfully, willfully, wantonly and feloniously incited and procured him to do it. The indict ment was drawn under section 985 (6) of The Code, wbicb requires the act to be done “willfully and wantonly,” and makes it a felony.
The State introduced evidence which tended to show that'…
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