State v. . Nicholson
Supreme Court of North Carolina
Indictment for larceny and receiving tried at June Term, 1881, of Wake Superior Court, before Shipp, J. The facts necessary to an understanding of the exception made by the defendant are' stated in the opinion of this court. The jury returned a verdict of guilty of receiving, &c., judgment, appeal by defendant.
1Opinion of the CourtSmith, C. J.
No complaint is made of any ruling of tire court upon tlie trial, and as the record expressly states, no exception taken to the charge given the jury.'’ After the rendition of the verdict acquitting the defendant of the larceny imputed in the first count of the indictment and convicting him of the offence of receiving the goods knowing them to have been stolen contained in the second count, the motion for a new trial was made upon the ground that there was no evidence to support the finding upon the latter, and the court should have so directed the jury.
The rule is well settled in the…
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