State v. . Horne
Supreme Court of North Carolina
The defendant having been couvicted oímueder at October Term, 1894, of RobesoN Superior Court, appealed and was granted a new trial. After several continuances, he was again tried and acquitted at April Term, 1896, of the Criminal Circuit Court of RobesoN County.
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The defendant having been couvicted oímueder at October Term, 1894, of RobesoN Superior Court, appealed and was granted a new trial. After several continuances, he was again tried and acquitted at April Term, 1896, of the Criminal Circuit Court of RobesoN County. At July Term, 1896, his Honor Meares, J., taxed the costs of the defendants’ witnesses for the term at which he had been convicted as well as for the teriná at which the continuances had been granted, and the Board of County Commissioners appealed.
1Opinion of the Court
Clark, J. :
The objection that this appeal does not lie because only a matter of costs isinvolved, is founded upon a misconception of the decisions. When the subject matter of an action has been disposed of by compromise, destruction of the property, or otherwise, this Couit on appeal will not pass upon the merits of the original matter in litigation to ascertain which side in law -ought to have won, in order merely to decide who shall pay the costs, for the Court will not waste its time upon an abstract question. Clark’s Code, p. 560 (2d Ed.) But when the question is whether a particular item…
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