Legal Opinion

State v. . Shelnutt

Supreme Court of North Carolina

Decided March 20, 1940PublishedCited by 2 opinions

1Opinion of the CourtSeawell, J.

¥e bave not attempted to set out the evidence in detail, or to call attention to other parts of the State’s evidence which might offer a speculative suggestion of defendant’s guilt. He was tried for forging and uttering the specific checks described in the indictment, and the fact,, if true, that he had forged a multitude of them in wrongfully converting his employer’s funds does not identify the nine checks with which the investigation was concerned as being so forged and uttered, but only induced a speculative, not a probative persuasion that they were forged. Sampson v. Jackson Bros., 203…

2Cases cited3 opinions

  1. State v. . VinsonSupreme Court of North Carolina · 1869
  2. Sampson v. . Jackson Bros. Co.Supreme Court of North Carolina · 1932
  3. Ivey v. Eastern Cotton Oil Co.Supreme Court of North Carolina · 1930

3Cited by2 opinions

  1. State v. . BoydSupreme Court of North Carolina · 1943
  2. State v. . ToddSupreme Court of North Carolina · 1942

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