State v. . Bullard
Supreme Court of North Carolina
INDICTMENT for obtaining goods under false pretensions, tried before Meares, J., at November Term, 1887, of the Criminal Court of New Hanover.
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INDICTMENT for obtaining goods under false pretensions, tried before Meares, J., at November Term, 1887, of the Criminal Court of New Hanover. The indictment on which the defendant was tried and convicted, in the Criminal Court of .New Hanover, charges him with having obtained from the prosecutor, Rufus W. Hicks, by means of false and fraudulent representations of the ownership of a large quantity of rosin by the partnership firm of C. E. Bullard & Co., he being a member thereof. On the trial, the State introduced as a witness, William P. Melvin, the other partner, and examined him in support…
1Opinion of the Court
Smith, C. J.,
(after stating the facts). The only question we propose to consider, in disposing of .the. appeal, is raised by the exception to the last interrogatory, and the response thereto.
The information elicited from the witness, in itself, not very definite, nor plainly prejudicial to the defendant, but taken in connection with the inquiry to which it responds, it cannot but be injurious to the defendant, and its import must be ascertained by their obvious relations.
The question is, in substance, did not the defendant, according to report, practice a fraud upon the firm named? The answer…
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