State v. . Upchurch
Supreme Court of North Carolina
Okiminal action, for failing to give in and list his poll tax, tried at the January Term, 18T5, of the Superior Court of Wake county, before his Honor, Judge Watts.
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Okiminal action, for failing to give in and list his poll tax, tried at the January Term, 18T5, of the Superior Court of Wake county, before his Honor, Judge Watts. The defendant was held to answer upon the following bill of indictment: “ TToRtii Caeolina, | Superior Oouri. 1Vahe Oouvty, j January Term, 1875. The Jurors for the State upon their oath present: That diaries !\ Upchurch, late of Wake county, on the first day of April, in the year of our Lord, one thousand eight hundred and seventy-three, at and in said county of Wake, was a male inhabitant of the State of North Carolina, over…
1Opinion of the CourtRodman, J.
By an Act ratified 28th of February, 1873, (Acts of 1872-73, chap. 115, sec. 15,) the General Assembly .enacted that “ all persons who are liable for a poll tax, and shall wilfully fail to give themselves in, and all persons who •own property and wilfully fail to list it within the time allotted, before the list taker and the county commissioners, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and on conviction therefor, •shall be fined not more than fifty dollars, or imprisoned not more than thirty days. The same provision is found in the Act of 1873-74, chap. 133, sec. 19.
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