State v. . Jacobs
Supreme Court of North Carolina
CRIMINAL ACTION, tried before Philips, J., at May Term,. 1888, of Robeson Superior Court. The indictment against the defendant, found at January Term of Robeson Superior Court, charges that the defendant,. “ being a person regardless of the solemnities of the public worship of God,” * * * did, in said county, “ wilfully interrupt and disturb a certain assembly of people, there* met for the'worship of God, at a certain church, known as New Hope Church, in the county…
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CRIMINAL ACTION, tried before Philips, J., at May Term,. 1888, of Robeson Superior Court. The indictment against the defendant, found at January Term of Robeson Superior Court, charges that the defendant,. “ being a person regardless of the solemnities of the public worship of God,” * * * did, in said county, “ wilfully interrupt and disturb a certain assembly of people, there* met for the'worship of God, at a certain church, known as New Hope Church, in the county aforesaid, by then and there forbidding the said congregation to enter the house of worship, or hold a meeting therein, by then…
1Opinion of the CourtSmith, C. J.
The principal witness examined for the State, Calvin Lowry, testified substantially as follows: On the first Sabbath of the past year, a stated time for holding religious services in the church known as New Hope Church, he, with a wagon in which were his family of ten or twelve persons, came to the house for religious worship, and found it surrounded with a rail fence three or four rails high, and found the defendant there, who had constructed a small room of about four feet square in one of the corners of the house.
That on halting, defendant ordered the driver of the w'agon to keep on, but…
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- State v. . HauseSupreme Court of North Carolina · 1874
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