State v. . Liles
Supreme Court of North Carolina
INDICTMENT for Larceny, tried at Eall Term, 1877, of An-son Superior Court, before Seymour, J. The defendant was indicted for stealing figs under Bat. Rev., clr. 32, § 20, and the evidence was that the figs grew upon a tree in a field used by the prosecutor for the cultivation of cotton, and that he was in the habit of using them in his family. The tree was not otherwise cultivated than by the cultivation of the field for cotton.
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INDICTMENT for Larceny, tried at Eall Term, 1877, of An-son Superior Court, before Seymour, J. The defendant was indicted for stealing figs under Bat. Rev., clr. 32, § 20, and the evidence was that the figs grew upon a tree in a field used by the prosecutor for the cultivation of cotton, and that he was in the habit of using them in his family. The tree was not otherwise cultivated than by the cultivation of the field for cotton. The defendant’s counsel requested the Court to charge the j ury that under these circumstances the defendant was not guilty. This was refused, and under the…
1Opinion of the CourtBynum, J.
The defendant was tried on a bill of indictment of which the following is a copy: — “ The jurors for the State upon their oath present that Clark Liles, late, &c., on the first day of, &c., with force and arms, &c., one gallon of figs of the value of sixpence, the property of Thomas P. Dabbs, then and there standing and remaining ungathered in a certain field of the said Thomas P. Dabbs there situate • feloniously did steal, take and carry away, against the form •of the statute,” &e.
The indictment is founded on Bat. Rev., ch. 82, § 20, which is as follows : — “ If any person shall steal or…
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