State v. . Oxendine
Supreme Court of North Carolina
Appeal by Walter Oxendine from Long, J., at November Special Term, 1923, of RobesoN. Criminal prosecutions, tried upon three indictments.
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Appeal by Walter Oxendine from Long, J., at November Special Term, 1923, of RobesoN. Criminal prosecutions, tried upon three indictments. All three of the cases having grown out of the same transaction and occurring at the same time and place, on motion of the solicitor, they were consolidated and tried before the same jury, the defendants not objecting. 1. In the first bill, Dock Wilkins, Clarence Oxendine, and Walter Oxendine were charged with a forcible entry and detainer upon the premises of one Donnie Locklear. On this bill there was a general verdict of “guilty” as to all the…
1Opinion of the CourtStacy, J.
A brief statement of tbe facts is necessary to a proper understanding of tbe legal questions presented by tbe appeal.
There was evidence offered by the State tending to show tbat on Christmas night, 25 December, 1922, Proctor Locklear, Zack Brooks, and Bert Locklear called at tbe bouse of Donnie Locklear to pay Donnie and her three daughters a social visit. While there — about 8 or 9 o’clock in the evening — -they heard Walter Oxendine, Clarence Oxendine, and Dock Wilkins coming down the road, singing, hollering and cursing-loud enough to be heard a distance of approximately forty yards away.…
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