State v. . Alston
Supreme Court of North Carolina
Indictment, tried before Phillips, Judge, and a jury, at Fall Term, 1885, of Halifax Superior Court. The defendant was indicted for burning a tobacco barn, the property of one T. R. Bowers, in September, 1885. There was á verdict of guilty, and judgment thereon, from which the defendant appealed.
1Opinion of the Court
' Ashe, J.
The statement of the case, in disregard of the repeated suggestions of this Court, that only such parts of the evi-deuce should be set forth as will enable this Court to pass upon tlie rulings to which exception is taken below, contains a mass of superfluous and trival facts, which should have been omitted, as not pertinent to the exceptions taken. Strickland v. Draughan, 88 N. C., 315; Crawford v. Orr, 84 N. C., 246.
But while the material facts disclosed by the evidence, raised., to say the least, a very strong suspicion that the defendant was guilty of the crime with which he was…
2Cases cited2 opinions
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