Legal Opinion

State v. Campbell.

Supreme Court of North Carolina

Decided September 22, 1903PublishedCited by 5 opinions

INDICTMENT against Thomas Campbell, heard by Judge G. 8. Ferguson and a jury, at April Term, 1903, of the Superior Court of PItt County. Erom a verdict of guilty and judgment thereon the defendant appealed.

1Opinion of the Court

CílabK, C. J.

This was an indictment under The Code, sec. 1062, for pulling down and removing a fence surrounding a cultivated field. The prosecutor testified that he was in possession of the field, which he had cleared and fenced six or seven years ago, and had used it for tobacco beds for several years in succession; that year before last he had planted sweet potatoes in it, and last year he sowed peas in it and had picked part of them, when he was taken down with typhoid fever, and on his recovery found that the fence had been torn down and removed, and that he heard the defendant admit…

2Cases cited2 opinions

  1. State v. . HovisSupreme Court of North Carolina · 1877
  2. State v. . AllenSupreme Court of North Carolina · 1851

3Cited by5 opinions

  1. State v. BakerSupreme Court of North Carolina · 1949
  2. State v. . TaylorSupreme Court of North Carolina · 1916
  3. State v. Poyner.Supreme Court of North Carolina · 1904
  4. Combs v. County CommissionersSupreme Court of North Carolina · 1915
  5. State v. . CornettSupreme Court of North Carolina · 1930

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