State v. . Davis

The defendant was indicted with one Jones at Spring Term, 1870, of Johnston Superior Court, before his Honor, Watts, J., for an aflray by fighting together in a public place. He pleaded a former conviction before a Justice of the Peace u in his own proper township, and that no deadly weapon was used and no bodily injury inflicted.” He produced in evidence in support of Ms plea, a transcript of the proceedings before a Justice, from wbicb it appeared that the complaint to the Justice was made by one G-upton against both Davis and Jones, and it did not appear that the offence was committed in…