State v. . Mazon
Supreme Court of North Carolina
INDICTMENT for murder tried at Spring Term, 1883, of Pout Superior Court, before Shipp, J. Verdict of guilty; judgment; appeal by the prisoner.
1Opinion of the CourtSmith, C. J.
The prisoner is charged in the bill of indictment with the murder of C. F. Lawrence, committed in the-month of June, 1882, and on his trial before the jury was found guilty.
1. The first exception presented in the record is to the form of the oath taken by the witnesses, none of them repeating its •closing words and making a personal appropriation of them to himself by adding “so help me God,” and especially to the manner in which the witnesses for the state were sworn.
The oath prescribed by the statute to be administered to every ■witness in a capital trial is as follows:
“ Yon swear (or…
2Cases cited4 opinions
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