State v. Wilcox.
Supreme Court of North Carolina
INDICTMENT against James Wilcox, heard by Judge George A. Jones and a jury, at March Term, 1902, of the Superior Court of Pasquotank County. From a verdict of guilty of murder in the first degree, and judgment thereon, the defendant appealed.
1Opinion of the Court
"No person ought to be taken or disseized of his freehold, liberties or privileges, or outlawed or exiled, or in any manner deprived of his life, liberty or property but by the law of the land." And that provision of our State Constitution applies as well to the procedure and manner (708) of trial in our courts of justice as it does to the great principles of law which underlie our society. Under the law of the land, all persons charged with crime are as much entitled to a fair and unprejudiced trial as they are to the protection of their persons, their property or their reputation. They have…
2Cited by12 opinions
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