State v. . Corbin
Supreme Court of North Carolina
Appeal from Long, J., at October Term, 1911, of Hendee-SON. The defendant was convicted upon the following bill of indictment : “The jurors for the State, upon their oaths, do present: That M. N. Corbin, late of the county of Henderson, on 10 July, in the year of our Lord one thousand nine .hundred and eleven, with force and arms at and in the county aforesaid, unlawfully and willfully did defile, corrupt, or pollute a creek, the source of a public water supply used for…
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Appeal from Long, J., at October Term, 1911, of Hendee-SON. The defendant was convicted upon the following bill of indictment : “The jurors for the State, upon their oaths, do present: That M. N. Corbin, late of the county of Henderson, on 10 July, in the year of our Lord one thousand nine .hundred and eleven, with force and arms at and in the county aforesaid, unlawfully and willfully did defile, corrupt, or pollute a creek, the source of a public water supply used for drinking purposes in the vicinity of Tuxedo in said county, against the form of the statute in such case made and provided,…
1Opinion of the CourtAlleh, J.
The indictment follows the words of the statute, which is as follows: “If any person shall defile, corrupt, or pollute any well, spring, drain, branch, brook or creek, or other source of public water supply used for drinking purposes, in any manner, or deposit the body of ’ any dead animal on the watershed of any such water supply, or allow the same to remain thereon, unless the same is buried with at least two feet cover, he shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and fined and imprisoned, in the discretion of the court”; and it has been held repeatedly that it is sufficient for the indictment to…
2Cases cited4 opinions
- State v. . HarrisonSupreme Court of North Carolina · 1907
- State v. . StantonSupreme Court of North Carolina · 1841
- State v. . ShadeSupreme Court of North Carolina · 1894
- State v. RobersonSupreme Court of North Carolina · 1904
3Cited by2 opinions
- State v. . HornerSupreme Court of North Carolina · 1917
- State v. . HintonSupreme Court of North Carolina · 1912