State v. . Lyon
Supreme Court of North Carolina
Petition for a Certiorari filed by the prisoner and granted at June Term, 1879, of The Supreme Court. The facts upon which the motion for the discharge of prisoner is based are sufficiently stated by The Chief Justice in delivering the opinion of this court.
1Opinion of the CourtSmith, C. J.
The prisoner Rebecca Ann Lyon was examined in the summer of 1877 as a witness upon an inquisition of the coroner's jury into the causes of the death of Nannie Blackwell, and on behalf of the state, before two successive grand juries in Orange superior court, on bills of indictment charging Robert Boswell with the murder of the deceased, and again upon his trial at fall term, 1878, before the petty jury by whose verdict he was convicted. At the same term the prisoner herself was indicted for the same crime, as an accomplice, mainly upon the testimony of Robert Boswell, and at spring term,…
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