State v. . Roberts
Supreme Court of North Carolina
INDictment for a Misdemeanor under Bat. Rev., ch. 32, § 95, tried at Spring Term, 1879, of Buncombe Superior Court, before Cudger, J. The bill charged that the defendants, William Roberts, James Dixon and others did wilfully and unlawfully abuse and kill one hog, the property of M. M. Harper, in an enclosure not surrounded by a lawful fence, &c. The facts constituting the grounds of the exception taken in the court below appear in the opinion.
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INDictment for a Misdemeanor under Bat. Rev., ch. 32, § 95, tried at Spring Term, 1879, of Buncombe Superior Court, before Cudger, J. The bill charged that the defendants, William Roberts, James Dixon and others did wilfully and unlawfully abuse and kill one hog, the property of M. M. Harper, in an enclosure not surrounded by a lawful fence, &c. The facts constituting the grounds of the exception taken in the court below appear in the opinion. Verdict of guilty as to William Roberts, judgment, appeal by defendant.
1Opinion of the CourtDillard, J.
On the trial, Harper was put on the stand, as a witness for the state, and the defendant in his cross-examination asked him if he had not said to one Erwin Wells, “ that rather than be outdone by a negro, he would swear any amount of liesand also, if he had not admitted on a trial before one Robinson, a justice of the peace, that he had declared “ he would have all the corn cut down on Sandy Marsh creek (on which creek he and the defendant resided) and would poison all the stock on said creek.”
To these questions the witness made answer denying the making of such statements, and thereupon the…
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