State v. . Taylor
Supreme Court of North Carolina
INDICTMENT for larceny tried at Spring Term, 1882, of Lenoib, Superior Court, before Gilmer, J. The defendant was charged with stealing a horse, the property of one Barfield.
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INDICTMENT for larceny tried at Spring Term, 1882, of Lenoib, Superior Court, before Gilmer, J. The defendant was charged with stealing a horse, the property of one Barfield. The evidence on the part of the state tended to show that a cart and horse, the property of the prosecutor, were stolen on the night of the 14th of December, 1880, and the cart (one wheel of which made a peculiar track) was tracked from Lenoir county, some twenty-five miles, to Wilcox’s Mill, in the county of Jones. The tracks were last seen near a bridge at that place. One of the witnesses for the state testified that…
1Opinion of the CourtAshe, J.
Several exceptions were taken to evidence by the defendant, in the course of the trial, but we deem it unnecessary to consider any of them, except that taken to the evidence of the justice, which was offered, as we understand, to discredit the testimony of the witness Harper.
From the statement of the case, it seems the witness Quin, in his examination, had been asked if he had not had a certain conversation with the witness Robert Harper, in regard to the identification of the stolen horse, and he denied that such a conversation had occurred. Harper was then recalled by the defendant, and…
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