State v. . Bush
Supreme Court of North Carolina
Appeal by defendant from Bond, J., at September Term, 1918, of PASQUOTANK. The defendant was indicted and convicted in tbe recorder’s court for having in bis possession sixteen gallons of whiskey for the purposes of sale. On appeal to the Superior Court he was again convicted and appealed.
1Opinion of the CourtClaRK, C. J.
The chief point pressed on the argument here was the refusal of the court to charge that “If the jury believed all the evidence to return a verdict of not guilty.” The evidence against the defendant in the record, and as fairly summed up by the trial judge, is that the defendant about 10 a. m. came to the witness, Will Morris, the owner, and in charge of the stable, which was locked and not in use, and asked permission to have a trunk put in there. Morris says that he gave the defendant the key to the stable and soon after that he saw a trunk in the stable and that defendant did not return…
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