State v. . Jones
Supreme Court of North Carolina
This is a petition to rehear the case of an indictment for murder which was before the Supreme Court at the last term upon an appeal, when an opinion was given that there was no error, and it was ordered that the opinion should be certified to the Superior Court of the county of Craven from which the appeal was taken. After an argument by the Attorney General for the State and Haughton for the prisoner, the following opinion of the Court was given :
1Opinion of the CourtReade, J.
The defendant was tried for murder and convicted, and appealed to this Court. At the last term of this Court we decided that there was no error, and directed that our opinion be certified to the Court below, that that Court might proceed to judgment. At this term of the Court the defendant files a petition to have the case reheard in this Court, upon the ground that his counsel was not present when the case was heard in this Court, and that on that account the attention of this Court was not called to a defense which would have availed him.
Neither the learned counsel for the prisoner nor the…
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