State v. Whitfield
Supreme Court of North Carolina
INDICTMENT, for larceny, tried at the Pall Term, 1873, of Mastín Superior Court, before bis Honor, Judge Moore. On the trial below, the defendant was convicted. Judgment and appeal. The fasts- of the ease, and the questions raised upon the trial, are fully stated in the opinion of the Court. cited and relied on the decision of the case of the State v. Noah Navis, 63 N. C. Rep. 578-,
1Opinion of the CourtPeaeson, C. J.
We do not concur in the legal inference that, upon the facts found, the confession of the defendant was voluntary and therefore admissible as evidence.
The facts found are as follows :
The owner, a white man, had lost a hog the night before, and on the following morning, suspecting the defendant, went into his field in company with two other white men, where the defendant, a colored man in his employment, was at work, and telling Mm that the hog had been stolen, said to liiin, “I believe you are guilty; if you are, you had better say so ; if yon are not, you bad better say that.” Whereupon the…
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