State v. . Combs
Supreme Court of North Carolina
INDICTMENT for breaking down a gate across a cartway, tried before Hoke, J., and a jury, at Fall Term, 1896, of Surby Superior Court.
1Opinion of the Court
Furohes, J.:
The defendant was indicted for “willfully, unlawfully and maliciously breaking down and injuring certain gates erected across the cartway running through the lands of S. S. Harris, beginning near the house of S. P. Combs, in Bryan township, and running in an eastern direction through the lands of said Harris, for the distance > of about one-half mile, said cartway being laid off by authority of a jury regularly constituted by the Board of Supervisors in and for said Bryan township, contrary to the form of the Statute and against the peace and dignity of the State.” Upon a verdict…
2Cases cited2 opinions
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- State v. . CrumplerSupreme Court of North Carolina · 1883