State v. . McEntyre
Supreme Court of North Carolina
Appeal by the Solicitor for the State, from the Superior Court of Rutherford, at Fall Term, 1842, his Honor Judge Pearson presiding. The charges in this indictment, and the facts of the case^ are fully set forth in the opinion delivered in this court.
1Opinion of the CourtRuffin, C. J.
By an act, passed in the year 1840, ch. 87, “to incorporate the town of Rutherfordton,” it is enacted, s. 2, that the citizens of the town, on the first Monday of March in each year, may elect a town magistrate and four commissioners, with certain qualifications, as therein spec!- fied, to serve for one year from the day of election and, by sec. 3. “that the sheriff of Rutherford county shall hold said elections for .town magistrate and commissioners under ^ same regulations that elections are now held for .members of Assembly, and shall determine who is elected ; and that he shall…
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