State v. . Haddock
Supreme Court of North Carolina
CRIMINAL action, tried before Whitaker, J., at the June Term, 1891, of the Superior Court of Pitt County. The defendant was indicted for attempting to injure and destroy the reputation of an innocent woman, under section 1113 of The Code.
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CRIMINAL action, tried before Whitaker, J., at the June Term, 1891, of the Superior Court of Pitt County. The defendant was indicted for attempting to injure and destroy the reputation of an innocent woman, under section 1113 of The Code. The indictment was as follows : “The jurors for the State upon their oaths present, that Spencer Haddock, late of the county of Pitt on the 26th day of May, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and ninety-one, at and in the county of Pitt, attempting, wantonly and maliciously to injure and destroy the reputation of one Lany Booth, being an…
1Opinion of the Court
Davis, J.:
By section .1113 of The Code it is made a misdemeanor for anyone to “ attempt, in a wanton and malicious manner, to destroy the reputation of an innocent woman, by words written or spoken, which amount to a charge of incon-tinency.” The defendant is indicted under this section, and the only question presented for our consideration is, does the indictment “express the charge against the defendant in a plain, intelligible and explicit manner.”
If it does, it is sufficient See The Code, § 1183. Theindictment follows the very language of the statute; but it is said that the indictment…
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