Legal Opinion

State v. . Snipes

Supreme Court of North Carolina

Decided April 15, 1914PublishedCited by 2 opinions

Appeal by defendant from Devin, Jat January Term, 1914, of Foestth. Indictment for resisting an officer. Yerdict of guilty. Judgment, and defendant excepted and appealed.

1Opinion of the Court

Pee Ctteiam.

There was evidence to justify the verdict, and, on careful perusal of the record, we find no reason for disturbing the results of the trial. It was very properly admitted in the brief of the appellant’s counsel that the rulings objected to were matters very largely in the discretion of the trial court, and assuredly there is shown no such abuse of his Honor’s discretion as to present a question of law for our decision.

It was chiefly urged that the cross-examination of defendant was allowed to take too wide a range in seeking to develop facts as to defendant’s conduct on the night…

2Cited by2 opinions

  1. State v. BlackwellSupreme Court of North Carolina · 1970
  2. State v. . NealSupreme Court of North Carolina · 1943

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