State v. . Coley
Supreme Court of North Carolina
INDICTMENT for murder, tried at January Term, 1894, of Franklin Superior Court, before Bynum, J., and a jury. The testimony was that the deceased, S. Tucker, a Jew peddler, came to the house of Lucy Brewer and Pinkie Williams, in Gold Mine Township, late in the evening in July, 1892, and there met the defendant Cal. Coley. Later the defendant Tom Coley came to the house also. All ate supper together and the deceased was asked to stay all night.
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INDICTMENT for murder, tried at January Term, 1894, of Franklin Superior Court, before Bynum, J., and a jury. The testimony was that the deceased, S. Tucker, a Jew peddler, came to the house of Lucy Brewer and Pinkie Williams, in Gold Mine Township, late in the evening in July, 1892, and there met the defendant Cal. Coley. Later the defendant Tom Coley came to the house also. All ate supper together and the deceased was asked to stay all night. The defendant Cal. accused the deceased of being the man who had charged him with being a “kinkey-head nigger,” which the deceased denied. Cal. Coley,…
1Opinion of the Court
Avery, J.:
No principle of evidence is more clearly settled in North Carolina, nor by a longer line of decisions, than that a witness will not be allowed to testify’' as to character until he shall have first qualified himself by stating that he knows the general reputation of the person in question. State v. Wheeler, 104 N. C., 893; State v. Gee, 92 N. C., 756; State v. Perkins, 66 N. C., 126 ; State v. Parks, 3 Ired., 296. This the witness failed to do, apd the objection to the proposed testimony as to character was properly sustained. There was no error in the refusal of the Court either to…
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- State v. . Harvey PerkinsSupreme Court of North Carolina · 1872
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- State v. . LongSupreme Court of North Carolina · 1878
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