State v. . Jacobs
Supreme Court of North Carolina
INDICTMENT, tried before Macliae, Judge, and a jury, at December Term, 1885, of Richmond Superior Court. The charge in the indictment was, that the defendant, on the. 30th day of November, A. D., 1885, with force and arms and with a strong hand, did enter the dwelling house of one Margaret Ives, against the will of the said Margaret Ives, she being then and there present and forbidding him to do so, against the peace and dignity of the State.
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INDICTMENT, tried before Macliae, Judge, and a jury, at December Term, 1885, of Richmond Superior Court. The charge in the indictment was, that the defendant, on the. 30th day of November, A. D., 1885, with force and arms and with a strong hand, did enter the dwelling house of one Margaret Ives, against the will of the said Margaret Ives, she being then and there present and forbidding him to do so, against the peace and dignity of the State. On the trial, the prosecutrix was introduced as a witness on the part of the State, and she testified, that on the Dight of the 30th of November, 1885,…
1Opinion of the Court
Ashe, J.,
(after stating the facts). On the night of the 30th of November, 1885, a number of people, men and women, were quietly assembled at the house of a Mrs. Ives, and at the late hour of 10 o’clock, the peace and quiet of the household was disturbed, by the approach of this formidable defendant, with curses and threats of vengeance and death against the occupant of the house. Such was the terrible order of his coming, that all the iumates of the house fled panic-stricken therefrom; and betook themselves to places of concealment and safety. The door had been barred, but that formed no…
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