Legal Opinion
State v. . McDowell
Supreme Court of North Carolina
Decided January 5, 1881PublishedCited by 5 opinions
Indictment tried at Pall Term, 1880, of Henderson Superior Court, before Gilmer, J. The defendants demurred to the indictment, and from the judgment overruling the same, they appealed.
1Opinion of the CourtRuffin, J.
This was an indictment against the defendants as president and directors of the Buncombe Turnpike Company for not keeping in repair so much of the road belonging to the company as lies between the Buncombe line and the South Carolina line in Henderson county. The defendants demurred to the indictment and upon the overruling of the demurrer appealed to this court. The indictment is in the following words:
“ The jurors, &c., present that W. W. DcDowell, president, and V. Ripley, Mont. Patton, directors of the Buncombe Turnpike road, late of Henderson county, on the 8th day of September, 1879,…
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