State v. . Lytle
Supreme Court of North Carolina
INDICTMENT for barn burning, tried before Ewart, J., at the July, 1895, Term of the Criminal Circuit Court for Buncombe County. The- defendant was convicted and appealed. The facts appear in the opinion of Associate Justice Eueches.
1Opinion of the Court
Furches, J.:
The exceptions not appearing very plainly from the record, it was agreed by the Attorney General and Mr. Adams, who represented the defendant, to submit the case on three exceptions: 1. That there was no evidence that the offence charged (burning a barn) was committed in Buncombe county. 2. As to the admission of evidence that defendant had threatened to burn the barn. 3. The court erroneously allowed the evidence of Doslcins as to seeing defendant the night of the fire.
The first exception cannot be sustained. The indictment charged the offence to have been committed in Bun combe…
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