State v. . Williams
Supreme Court of North Carolina
INDICTMENT for MURDER, tried before Bailey, J., at the last Spring Term of EocMnghain Superior Court. The indictment is as follows: “S Superior Court of Law, The jurors for the State, upon their oath present, that Nobert T. Williams and Murray L. Williams, late of the county of Nockingham, not having the fear of God before their eyes, but being moved and seduced by the instigation of the devil, on the first day of December, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred…
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INDICTMENT for MURDER, tried before Bailey, J., at the last Spring Term of EocMnghain Superior Court. The indictment is as follows: “S Superior Court of Law, The jurors for the State, upon their oath present, that Nobert T. Williams and Murray L. Williams, late of the county of Nockingham, not having the fear of God before their eyes, but being moved and seduced by the instigation of the devil, on the first day of December, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and fifty-nine, with force and aims in the county aforesaid, in and upon one Peggy Hilton, alias Peggy Isly, in the…
1Opinion of the CourtBattle, J.
On his trial, the prisoner made two objections to the admission of testimony which were over-ruled, and prayed an instruction to the jury which was refused, all which are set forth in his bill of exceptions as the grounds of his application to have the judgment against him reversed, and a venvre de novo awarded. lie has also submitted a motion that, if another trial be refused him, the judgment shall be arrested for an alleged insufficiency of the indictment.
In order to understand the pertinency of the objections to the testimony, as well as that of the instruction which was prayed, it is…
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