State v. Traylor
Supreme Court of North Carolina
INDICTMENT for forgeiy of a promissory note, tried before Ilohe, J., and a jury at Fall Term, 1897, of Union Superior Court. The defendant was convicted and appealed, assigning as error the refusal of his prayer for instruction that evidence as to his character could not be allowed to affect the question of his guilt or innocence but only his credibility as a witness, he having testified in his own behalf.
1Opinion of the Court
Montííojiery, J.:
The defendant, McGee, who had entered a plea of guilty to the indictment charging him and the other defendant, Traylor, with the forgery of a promissory note, on his examination as a witness for the State, testified that he and Traylor committed the forgery and that they also, at and about the same time, obtained monej’- from various persons by means of false pretences. There was other evidence tending to show that at the time the note was forged, and before, the defendants were engaged “in an illegal combination to cheat parties by sale of a patent right and by taking notes…
2Cases cited1 opinion
- State v. . EflerSupreme Court of North Carolina · 1881
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