State v. Bloodworth
Supreme Court of North Carolina
This was an Indictment against the defendant, for not keeping a fence five feet- high around his cultivated field during crop season in the year 1885, tried before Meares, Judge, in the Criminal Court of New HanovER county, at the September Term,. 1885, of said court.
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This was an Indictment against the defendant, for not keeping a fence five feet- high around his cultivated field during crop season in the year 1885, tried before Meares, Judge, in the Criminal Court of New HanovER county, at the September Term,. 1885, of said court. The jury returned the following special verdict, to-wit: “The jury find, that the defendant was the occupier and cultivator of a farm, and that he did not have and keep a fence five feet high around the same during the crop season of the year 1885. But whether the defendant is guilty or not guilty under this bill of indictment,…
1Opinion of the Court
Ashe, J.,
(after stating the facts). The indictment was preferred under §2799 of The Code, which is as follows: “Every planter shall make a sufficient fence about his cleared ground under cultivation, at least five feet high, unless there shall be some navigable stream or deep water course, that shall be sufficient instead of such fence, and unless his lands shall be situated within the limits of a county, township or district, where the stock law may be in force.”
The statute, it will be seen, contains two exceptions, the.one that there is a navigable stream or deep water course that shall be…
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