State v. . Bishop
Supreme Court of North Carolina
INDICTMENT, Larceny, tried at the Spring Term, 1875, of Bebtie Superior Court, before his Honor, Judge Moobe. The facts pertinent to the points decided in this Court, together with the evidence relating thereto and the exceptions taken, are fully set forth in the opinion of Justice ByNum.
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INDICTMENT, Larceny, tried at the Spring Term, 1875, of Bebtie Superior Court, before his Honor, Judge Moobe. The facts pertinent to the points decided in this Court, together with the evidence relating thereto and the exceptions taken, are fully set forth in the opinion of Justice ByNum. His Honor, on the trial in the Court below, overruled the exceptions of the defendant in relation to rejection of certain evidence offered by him, and also the defendant’s objection to the verdict as recorded. From the rulings of his Honor, the defendant appealed.
1Opinion of the CourtByNum, J.
The defendant was indicted for the larceny of a leather trunk, the property of one W. J. Bishop. It was in proof that the trunk, when stolen in the month of October, 1S74, contained one new fifty dollar bill of the Exchange National Bank, of Norfolk, Ya.; that the prisoner had previously been in the service of the prosecutor, as a laborer on his farm, and had occasionally waited upon the. office from which the trunk was stolen, and was familiar with the locality and with the habits of the prosecutor; that he was at the time in the service of one Oapehart, a mile and a half distant, and very…
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