State v. . Patterson
Supreme Court of North Carolina
Appeal from fhe Superior Court ot Law of Surry County, at Spring Term, 1842, his Honor Judge Pearson, pesiding. This was an indictment for Bigamy, charging the first marriage to have been in Tennessee in the year 1823, with Deadema Kidwell, and the second marriage in Surry County in this State, in the year 1838, with one Leah Carter.
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Appeal from fhe Superior Court ot Law of Surry County, at Spring Term, 1842, his Honor Judge Pearson, pesiding. This was an indictment for Bigamy, charging the first marriage to have been in Tennessee in the year 1823, with Deadema Kidwell, and the second marriage in Surry County in this State, in the year 1838, with one Leah Carter. On the trial, the State called Josiah Cluck, who swore that he resided in Jefferson County, Tennessee; that many years before, he could not be certain as to the time, he was present at the house of his brother Daniel Cluck, in the said Counity, and saw Patterson,…
1Opinion of the CourtGaston, J.
It is objected on the part of the appellant, that the court below erred in rejecting proper evidence, which was offered in his behalf. The case states, that, on the cross-examination of Jacob Cluck and Daniel Cluck, witnesses examined on the part of the State to prove the first marriage of the defendant, they were asked whether the prosecutor had not paid them for coming to this State as witnesses, to which question they replied, that he had not; and that afterwards the prisoner'called a witness and proposed to ask him whether the said Jacob and Daniel Cluck had not told Mm, that the…
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