State v. . Bragg
Supreme Court of North Carolina
Indictment, for larceny tried at Spring Term, 1880, of Northampton Superior Court, before Oudger, J. In separate counts the bill of indictment charges the defendants, Matt. Bragg and Hugh Cain, with the larceny and felonious receiving of ten pounds of seed-cotton, and also of ten pounds of lint cotton, specifying the value of each, the property of M. W. Ransom, and upon trial before the inferior court of Northampton county, both were found guilty.
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Indictment, for larceny tried at Spring Term, 1880, of Northampton Superior Court, before Oudger, J. In separate counts the bill of indictment charges the defendants, Matt. Bragg and Hugh Cain, with the larceny and felonious receiving of ten pounds of seed-cotton, and also of ten pounds of lint cotton, specifying the value of each, the property of M. W. Ransom, and upon trial before the inferior court of Northampton county, both were found guilty. Before the jury the state offered testimony to show that on a certain night in January, 1879, the gin house on the plantation of said Ransom, some…
1Opinion of the Court
Smith, C. J.,
after stating the above. We think there was error committed in receiving evidence of the gleanings of the cotton left in the fields, and in the directions given to the jury as to its effect.' The subject matter of the larceny charged is “seed cotton” and “lint cotton,”.terms which, unexplained, seem to designate the article, after it has been picked or taken from the plant, in its condition before and after its undergoing the process of separating the seed from the fibre or lint. In commerce it is sold in both states, and a contract of sale, describing it in either way, would…
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