State v. Thompson
Supreme Court of North Carolina
INDICTMENT against Martin Thompson and others, heard by Judge A. L. Goble and a jury, at September Term, 1901. of the Superior Court of Montgomery County. Erom a verdict of guilty as to Martin and Will Thompson, and judgment thereon, the defendants appealed.
1Opinion of the CourtFurches, C. J.
This is an .indictment for forcible trespass, or rather for forcible entry and detainer.
The evidence showed that Mrs. Yarborough and the defendant Martin Thompson lived upon adjoining tracts of land, and that there is a strip of woodland that they both claim. The prosecutrix, Mrs. Yarb-orough, claims that is covered by the deeds to her deceased husband, and the defendant claims that it belonged to his father, who died more than forty years ago, and it was assigned to him in the division of his father’s land.
Both offered evidence tending to' show title as alleged, and both claimed to be in…
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