State v. . Hughes
Supreme Court of North Carolina
Indictment under the statute for entering into a dwelling house in the night time otherwise than by breaking, .tried at Fall Term, 1881, of Vance Superior Court, before Gudger, J. Tire indictment is as follows: The jurors for the state upon their oaths present, that Willis Hughes, late of Vance county aforesaid, on the first day of August, 1881, with force and arms at and in the county aforesaid, a dwelling house of one E. G. Davis there situate, then occupied by one Frank…
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Indictment under the statute for entering into a dwelling house in the night time otherwise than by breaking, .tried at Fall Term, 1881, of Vance Superior Court, before Gudger, J. Tire indictment is as follows: The jurors for the state upon their oaths present, that Willis Hughes, late of Vance county aforesaid, on the first day of August, 1881, with force and arms at and in the county aforesaid, a dwelling house of one E. G. Davis there situate, then occupied by one Frank Ward, about the hour of eleven on the night of the same day, unlawfully and wilfully did enter otherwise than by…
1Opinion of the CourtAshe, J.
The indictment was preferred under the act of 1874-5, ch. 166,' as amended by the act of 1879, ch. 323. The act of 1874-’5 is entitled “ An act to punish breaking into an uninhabited house with intent to commit a felony,” and provides that any person who shall wilfully break into a store house where any merchandise or other personal property is kept, or any uninhabited house with intent to commit a felony, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and on conviction thereof shall be punished by imprisonment in the county jailor state’s prison, for not less than four months nor more than ten years.
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