State v. . Pritchett
Supreme Court of North Carolina
This was an indictment for murder, tried at Spring Term, 1890, of Granville Superior Court, Armfidcl, J., presiding. The prisoner was charged with the killing of one Moseley by shooting him with a pistol, at night, in a house where he and a number of other colored people were assembled.
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This was an indictment for murder, tried at Spring Term, 1890, of Granville Superior Court, Armfidcl, J., presiding. The prisoner was charged with the killing of one Moseley by shooting him with a pistol, at night, in a house where he and a number of other colored people were assembled. The prisoner denied the killing, and, among other thing?, proposed to show that Amos Hodnett and prisoner were both arrested on the Monday after the homicide, and, pursuant to direction given a witness (then being examined) by Amos Hodnett, witness sent and got his pistol, which was a 82 cali-bre pistol. This…
1Opinion of the Court
MeekiMON, O. J :
In selecting the jury in this case, the prisoner challenged a person tendered as a juror for cause assignéd. The objection was not sustained by the Court, and the prisoner excepted. It appears that a jury was obtained before the prisoner had exhausted his right to challenge peremptorily. It is settled that such exception cannot be sustained. State v. Hensley, 94 N. C., 1021, and cases there cited.
The evidence rejected on the trial, referred to in, and embraced by, the exceptions numbered respectively 2, 3, 4, 5, 7, was not competent. It,referred to what was said and done after…
2Cases cited3 opinions
- State v. . GeeSupreme Court of North Carolina · 1885
- State v. . HensleySupreme Court of North Carolina · 1886
- State v. . BoyleSupreme Court of North Carolina · 1889
3Cited by26 opinions
- Simmons v. Davenport.Supreme Court of North Carolina · 1906
- State v. WoodsSupreme Court of North Carolina · 1975
- State v. . BradySupreme Court of North Carolina · 1890
- S. v. . EnglishSupreme Court of North Carolina · 1913
- State v. Bohanon.Supreme Court of North Carolina · 1906
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