State v. . Chavis
Supreme Court of North Carolina
INDICTMENT for Murder" removed from Richmond and Eried at Spring Term, 1878, of Stanlv Superior Court, before Moore, J. The first exceptions are stated in the opinion, of the court.. The prisoner and Allen Jacobs were charged with killing one Jere Everett.
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INDICTMENT for Murder" removed from Richmond and Eried at Spring Term, 1878, of Stanlv Superior Court, before Moore, J. The first exceptions are stated in the opinion, of the court.. The prisoner and Allen Jacobs were charged with killing one Jere Everett. The evidence was in substance as follows ; Laura Leak, a witness for the' state, testifi ed that she Was1 going along a lane leading into a public road near the town of Rockingham in the afternoon of the day on which the-homicide is alleged to have been committed, and having-approached within fifty yards' of the road, she saw deceased going…
1Opinion of the CourtAshe, J.
Before the case was submitted to the jury, the prisoners’ counsel suggested a diminution of the record from -Richmond superior court, and moved for a certiorari on the .ground that it did not appear that the prisoners were arraign-■edin open court, and that «the solicitor had not entered a similiter to the tender of issue on the plea of prisoners. The motion was refused and the prisoners excepted. Both of -these exceptions were properly overruled. The first, because the transcript of the record does show that the prisoners were brought to the bar of the court by the sheriff of Richmond county…
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