State v. . Johnston
Supreme Court of North Carolina
The DEFENDANT was tried and fined by a justice of the peace in Halifax for disobedience to a summons of a road overseer to- work on a public road, and was again convicted on appeal heard before Meares, N., at December, 1895, Tqrm of the Criminal Court of Halifax County. The jury returned a special verdict, the substance of which is set out in the opinion of Chief Justice Fairoloth and from the judgment of Meares, Jl, defendant appealed.
1Opinion of the Court
Faircloth, C. J.:
From the special verdict these facts appear : That the defendant, who has never married, was a citizen of Yirginia, where he still votes and pays taxes, until January, 1895, when he came to Halifax county, North Carolina, and engaged to work as an employee and laborer of the “ Enfield Lumber Co.,” at one dollar per day, in loading cars and log trains, and so continued to work until July 3, 1895, when he was duly summoned to work on the road in the township in which he was at work. That defendant is still at work as aforesaid and intends to return to "Virginia when he gets…
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