State v. . Reynolds
Supreme Court of North Carolina
INDICTMENT from larceny tried at Spring Term, 1882, of Guileord Superior Court, before Craves, J. The defendant is charged with stealing a pound of tobacco and money of the value of one dollar from J. L. Harden and was found guilty of the offence. On the trial it was in evidence that the store of the prosecutor was entered and money left; in the drawer on Saturday taken.
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INDICTMENT from larceny tried at Spring Term, 1882, of Guileord Superior Court, before Craves, J. The defendant is charged with stealing a pound of tobacco and money of the value of one dollar from J. L. Harden and was found guilty of the offence. On the trial it was in evidence that the store of the prosecutor was entered and money left; in the drawer on Saturday taken. Tracks, corresponding with those of the defendant, were found near the place on Monday following, and the defendant had in his possession a piece of sleek silver coin identified as having been in the drawer on Saturday, and…
1Opinion of the CourtSmith, C. J.
The case presented on the record seems to assign three errors which we are called on to examine and decide.
3. The omission to recall the attention of the jury to the evidence extracted from the witnesses on their cross-examination :
The court was not asked to do this, and we must assume did present all that was material and pertinent to the inquiry as to the defendant’s guilt, closing with the remark that the jury “must base their verdict upon all the evidence.”
It is only necessary in disposing of the exception to repeat what has been recently said in another case. .“It was the duty of counsel…
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