Legal Opinion

State v. . Smallwood

Supreme Court of North Carolina

Decided January 5, 1878PublishedCited by 20 opinions

INDICTMENT for Murder removed from Bertie and tried at Eall Term, 1876, of Washington Superior Court, before Moore, J. The case is sufficiently stated by Mr. Justice Bynum, in delivering the opinion, of this Court. Verdict of guilty, Judgment. Appeal by prisoner.

1Opinion of the Court

Bynum J.

This case has been here once before. 75 N. C. 104. In his argument to the jury, the prisoner’s counsel offered to read a portion of the opinion of the Supreme •Court'delivered in the former appeal, detailing some of the facts of the case as they then appeared/ This was not allowed, the Court remarking however that the ‘•counsel was at liberty to read any proposition of law decided by the Supreme Court in this or any other case. ” The counsel then offered to read the whole of the opinion of the Supreme ■Court in the case. This was also disallowed and the prisoner excepted to both…

2Cases cited2 opinions

  1. State v. . SmallwoodSupreme Court of North Carolina · 1876
  2. Love v. . MoodySupreme Court of North Carolina · 1873

3Cited by20 opinions

  1. State v. . BrittainSupreme Court of North Carolina · 1883
  2. State v. FullerSupreme Court of North Carolina · 1894
  3. State v. . DegraffSupreme Court of North Carolina · 1893
  4. State v. . FullerSupreme Court of North Carolina · 1894
  5. Johnson v. . AllenSupreme Court of North Carolina · 1888

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