State v. . Garrett
Supreme Court of North Carolina
INDICTMENT, for murder, tried at Fall Term, 1873, of the Superior Court of Washington county, before his Honor, ■Judge Moore. The prisoners were charged with the murder of Alvina Garrett, a girl of fourteen years of age; on .the trial, Lucy •Stanley was acquitted.
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INDICTMENT, for murder, tried at Fall Term, 1873, of the Superior Court of Washington county, before his Honor, ■Judge Moore. The prisoners were charged with the murder of Alvina Garrett, a girl of fourteen years of age; on .the trial, Lucy •Stanley was acquitted. The evidence for the State established that on the 26th of August, 1873, the prisoners made an out-cry that the deceased came to her death by her clothes accidentally catching fire while she was asleep; and when the witness reached the house where the body of the girl, and where the prisoners were, Anica •Garrett told the witness…
1Opinion of the CourtByNum, J.
The prisoner objected to the admissibility of the evidence as to the condition of her hand and relied upon the ease of the State v. Jacobs, 5 Jones, 259.
The distinction between that and our case is that in Jacobs'1 case, tl e prisoner himself, on trial, was compelled to exhibit himself to the jury, that they might see that he was within the prohibited degree of color, thus he was forced to become a witness against himself. This was held to be error.
In our case, not the prisoners, but the witnesses, were called to prove what they saw upon inspecting the prisoner’s hand, although that…
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