State v. . Nat
Supreme Court of North Carolina
Indictment for an attempt to commit a rape upon a white woman, tried before Caldwell, Judge, at tlie last Pall Term of Northampton Superior Court. On the trial, the State offered to prove, that immediately after the offense and the charge against the prisoner, he fled, and though searched for under process, by an officer, he could not be found for a week or two. The defendant’s counsel objected to this evidence, but it was admitted by the Court. The defendant excepted.
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Indictment for an attempt to commit a rape upon a white woman, tried before Caldwell, Judge, at tlie last Pall Term of Northampton Superior Court. On the trial, the State offered to prove, that immediately after the offense and the charge against the prisoner, he fled, and though searched for under process, by an officer, he could not be found for a week or two. The defendant’s counsel objected to this evidence, but it was admitted by the Court. The defendant excepted. One of the counts, in the indictment, charged the defendant to be the property of one Edwards, in whose possession he was,…
1Opinion of the Court
Battle, L.
The counsel for the prisoner have, in their bill of exceptions, assigned two errors as having been committed on the trial by the presiding Judge; the first, in the admission of improper testimony; and the second, in an improper instruction to the jury.
The testimony to which objection was made, was, that soon after the oifense was alleged to have been committed, the prisoner had fled, and could not be found by the officer, who went with process for the purpose of apprehending him. The counsel admit that, had the prisoner been a free man, the testimony would have been proper,…
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