State v. . Rorie
Supreme Court of North Carolina
This was au IndictmeNT for Lavoeny, aud receiving stolen property, knowing it to be stolen, tried before Buxton, «/., at Fall Term, 1875, of RxohmoND Superior Court. The bill of indictment was found at Fall Term, 1875, of Anson Superior Court, and, upon the affidavit of the prisoner, removed to Richmond county.
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This was au IndictmeNT for Lavoeny, aud receiving stolen property, knowing it to be stolen, tried before Buxton, «/., at Fall Term, 1875, of RxohmoND Superior Court. The bill of indictment was found at Fall Term, 1875, of Anson Superior Court, and, upon the affidavit of the prisoner, removed to Richmond county. There were several exceptions taken to the rulings of his Honor in the court below, but as the case, as decided in this court, turns upon a single point they are omitted. . During the progress of the trial, one Redfearn, the prosecutor, testified, among other things, that after the…
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Settle, J’.
“At the commencement of the examination,, the prisoner shall be informed by the Magistrate that Ire- is- at liberty to refuse to answer any question that may bn- put to-him, and that' his refusal to answer shall not be used! to his prejudice in any stage of the proceedings.” Bat. Rev., chap. 33, sec. 23.
In the case at bar, when the prisoner was brought before-, the Magistrate, he was told by that official that “ he was. charged with selling stolen, corn, and that if he wanted to tell anything he could do so, but it was just as he chose.”
Was this a compliance with the statute. ? We…
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