State v. . Noland

The defendant was indicted and convicted of offering a bribe to Hurst Justice, a qualified juror serving in a criminal action entitled "State v. W. B. Davis et al.," tried at a Special Term of the Superior Court of Buncombe County, which was convened in July, 1931. From the judgment pronounced he appealed to the Supreme Court upon assigned error. Hurst Justice, the juror, H. L. Justice his father, and W. B. Noland the defendant, are residents of Haywood County. The State's evidence tends to show that while the criminal action against Davis and his codefendants was being tried in Asheville,…