State v. . Graves
Supreme Court of North Carolina
INDICTMENT, for burglary, tried before Kerr, J., at December Term, 1874, GuilfoRD Superior Court. The burglary alleged was the breaking into and entering the house of J. I. Seales, in the city of Greensboro’, N. C., on the night of the 8th of August, with the intent to steal, and stealing and carrying away a watch and' chain, the property of J. I. Scales.
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INDICTMENT, for burglary, tried before Kerr, J., at December Term, 1874, GuilfoRD Superior Court. The burglary alleged was the breaking into and entering the house of J. I. Seales, in the city of Greensboro’, N. C., on the night of the 8th of August, with the intent to steal, and stealing and carrying away a watch and' chain, the property of J. I. Scales. There was evidence tending to prove that between nine o’clock on that night and two o’clock A. M. of the 9th of August, Mr. Scale’s house was entered by some one forcing open the blinds and raising the window sash of a room called the…
1Opinion of the Court
PeaksoN, O. J.
The fact that the “ watch and chain ” were found in the possession of the prisoner, at Danville, on the Monday after the burglary on the Saturday night preceding, at Greensboro’, connected with the fact that he was offering to dispose of the articles at much less than their value, and made contradictory statements as to how he got them, were matters tending to show either that the prisoner was the man who broke and entered the dwelling house and stole the watch and eháín, or else that he had received the goods, knowing them to have been stolen. These facts, taken in connection…
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