State v. . Stubbs
Supreme Court of North Carolina
Appeal from Catawba Superior Court, Pall Term, 1890, Armfield, J., presiding. The defendant, and a feme defendant, who did not appeal, were indicted for the offence of fornication and adultery, and pleaded not guilty. There was a trial and verdict of guilty, and judgment thereon, from which the male defendant appealed to this Court.
1Opinion of the Court
MekrimoN, C. J.:
The feme defendant, on the cross-examination of a witness for the State, asked the latter whether, on some occasion while she was in possession of property of the male defendant, and before the indictment, she had not told the witness that her brother had driven her from home, and that her father had paid the male defendant, who had married her cousin, to take her on his farm as a work-hand?
The question had reference to declarations of the feme defendant made after the offence charged in the indictment. The evidence, if material, was properly rejected. What a party says…
2Cases cited7 opinions
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