State v. Heaton
Supreme Court of North Carolina
Indictment for Embezzlement tried at April Term, 1879, of New Hanover Criminal Court, before Meares., J. After charging the election and qualification of the defendant -as clerk of the superior court of New Hanover county, the indictment further charged that he by virtue of his office and in pursuance of an act of the general .assembly ratified on the 10th of March, 1877, received and collected from one Alexander Oldham the sum of one dollar on a certain mortgage deed as a…
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Indictment for Embezzlement tried at April Term, 1879, of New Hanover Criminal Court, before Meares., J. After charging the election and qualification of the defendant -as clerk of the superior court of New Hanover county, the indictment further charged that he by virtue of his office and in pursuance of an act of the general .assembly ratified on the 10th of March, 1877, received and collected from one Alexander Oldham the sum of one dollar on a certain mortgage deed as a tax due to the state of North Carolina, which said sum of one dollar was the property of and for the'use of the said…
1Opinion of the CourtAshe, J.
The defendant being the clerk of the superior court of New Hanover county, and ex-officio judge of probate, was indicted at the August term, 1878, of the criminal court of said county for embezzlement. The indictment was founded on the fifth and eighth sections of chapter 156 of the acts of 1876-77.
The fifth section reads: “ On each marriage license, one dollar, and on each marriage contract, mortgage deed and deed in trust to secure creditors where amount secured exceeds three hundred dollars there shall be a tax of one dollar ; the tax on marriage licenses shall be paid to the register of…
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