State v. . Martin
Supreme Court of North Carolina
INDICTMENT, tried before Harding, J., and a jury at Fall Term, 1916, of Clay. Defendant was indicted under tbe. statute (Revisal, sec. 3613) for injury to property, in that he destroyed a crib of the prosecutor by an explosion of dynamite. He was convicted, and appealed.
1Opinion of the CourtWalker, J.
First. The defendant, on cross-examination of Eryan Brackens, a witness for the State, asked him this question: “Did you not hear your father testify yesterday that he had said, if Ras Martin did not swear that Carl did it, he would send him (Ras) to the penitentiary?” On objection by the State, the question was excluded. It was plainly irrelevant and, besides, was mere hearsay. It did not appear that the witness Bryan Brackens had been influenced by his father to give false testimony, nor was there any evidence of any threats against him, and no connection was shown between him and Ras…
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