State v. Freeman.
Supreme Court of North Carolina
INDICTMENT against H. R. Ereeman and A. A. McKenzie for an affray, beard by Judge Thomas J. Shaw and a jury, at April Term, 1900, of Montgomeby Superior Court-. Defendant’s statement of case on appeal: All the evidence in the case tended to show that the defendants were under the influence of liquor, and while returning from a fishing party along the public road, in company with various other persons, engaged in a friendly scuffle, when the defendant A. A. McKenzie caught…
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INDICTMENT against H. R. Ereeman and A. A. McKenzie for an affray, beard by Judge Thomas J. Shaw and a jury, at April Term, 1900, of Montgomeby Superior Court-. Defendant’s statement of case on appeal: All the evidence in the case tended to show that the defendants were under the influence of liquor, and while returning from a fishing party along the public road, in company with various other persons, engaged in a friendly scuffle, when the defendant A. A. McKenzie caught his foot under a pole and fell, and the defendant II. R. McKenzie, also fell over the same pole, and fell on the (other)…
1Opinion of the CourtEueohbs, J.
Tbe defendants, Robert Ereeman, Bud McKenzie, Henry Ereeman, and Sam McLeod, were indicted for an affray. It seems, from tbe record, that all four of tbe defendants were put on trial, and tbe jury, “for tbeir verdict, say they find tbe defendants guilty of simple assault. Judgment: Defendants fined fifty dollars eacb, and eacb pay one-fourth of tbe costs. (State accepted a verdict of not guilty as to defendants Sam McLeod and Henry Ereeman.)” And it seems that tbe defendants Henry Ereeman and A. A. McKenzie appealed. It also appears, from tbe record sent up, that defendants’ counsel made up a…
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