Young v. . Commissioners of Buncombe
Supreme Court of North Carolina
County — Liability for Board of Jury — for Pay of Witnesses. Civil Action, commenced before a Justice of the Peace in BüNCOMBE County and taken by appeal to the Superior ■'Court, heard at Chambers on the 23rd of January, 1877, before Ifenry, J. 1. During a trial for a capital felony at Spring Term, 1876, • ■of said Court the plaintiff furnished the jury with board for -six days.
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County — Liability for Board of Jury — for Pay of Witnesses. Civil Action, commenced before a Justice of the Peace in BüNCOMBE County and taken by appeal to the Superior ■'Court, heard at Chambers on the 23rd of January, 1877, before Ifenry, J. 1. During a trial for a capital felony at Spring Term, 1876, • ■of said Court the plaintiff furnished the jury with board for -six days. The defendant in the case was acquitted and the plaintiff brought this action to recover $117 the amount of 'his bill. 2. The plaintiff also alleged that he was entitled to an ad- • ditional amount of $6.80 for…
1Opinion of the Court
Read®, J.
1. The pay of jurors is whatever the County Commissioners shall allow not exceeding one dollar and fifty cents per day. Rat. Rev. ch. 105 § 23.
The presiding Judge has no power to increase that allowance in any given case. And we suppose that when -IJis Honor directed the Sheriff to furnish the jury with “board and lodging” during the trial he only meant -what is usual*» to allow the jury to have refreshments during the trial to'be procured of course at their own expense. And as the jurors could not separate to procure refreshments the offieer-was directed to wait upon them. Brandon…
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