State v. . Heaton
Supreme Court of North Carolina
INDICTMENT for Misdemeanor, tried at April Term, 1877,. of tbe Criminal Court of Neay HanoveR, before Meares, J. The defendant was Clerk of the Superior Court of said: County, and as such had received the sum of $25 tax on an. Inspector’s License issued by virtue of Private Laws 1870-’71,. ch. 6, and AAras indicted for a failure to pay the same into the treasury of the City of Wilmington.
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INDICTMENT for Misdemeanor, tried at April Term, 1877,. of tbe Criminal Court of Neay HanoveR, before Meares, J. The defendant was Clerk of the Superior Court of said: County, and as such had received the sum of $25 tax on an. Inspector’s License issued by virtue of Private Laws 1870-’71,. ch. 6, and AAras indicted for a failure to pay the same into the treasury of the City of Wilmington. The case is fully discussed by Mr. Justice Bynum in delivering the opinion of this Court. Verdict of guilty. Judgment. Appeal by defendant. • cited Slate v. Griffice, 74 N. C. 316 ; State v. Maywood, 73 N.…
1Opinion of the CourtBynum, J.
1. The Revised Code, ch. 81, § 88, provides that “the Judges of the Superior Courts, at the terms of their •Courts shall direct the names of all the persons returned as jurors to be written on scrolls of paper and put into a box or hat, and drawn out by a childJunder ten years of age; whereof the first eighteen drawn shall be a grand jury for the Court.” In this case the grand jury was so drawn, and then sworn, empanelled and charged.
Afterwards during the same term and before this indictment was found, it having been made to appear to the Court that some of the grand jury so chosen were…
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