State v. . White
Supreme Court of North Carolina
INDICTMENT, tried before Lyon, J., and a jury, at Fall Term, 1915, of BERTIE. The defendants were indicted for willfully, wantonly, and feloniously setting fire to and burning the stables and barn of one J. R. Lawrence. They were convicted, and appealed from the judgment pronounced upon the verdict.
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INDICTMENT, tried before Lyon, J., and a jury, at Fall Term, 1915, of BERTIE. The defendants were indicted for willfully, wantonly, and feloniously setting fire to and burning the stables and barn of one J. R. Lawrence. They were convicted, and appealed from the judgment pronounced upon the verdict. J. R. Lawrence was introduced as a witness for the State, and upon his examination was handed a map of his plantation and premises where the crime was alleged to have been committed, showing the relative position of the witness’s house and outbuildings and of the homes of the defendants, and he…
1Opinion of the CourtAllen, J.
It has been held by numerous decisions that it is competent for a witness to use a map upon the trial for the purpose of explaining his evidence, and the first exception of the defendants cannot be sustained. S. v. Harrison, 145 N. C., 410; S. v. Rogers, 168 N. C., 112, and the cases cited.
The exception to the charge is equally without merit.
The evidence is not made a part of the case on appeal, but it sufficiently appears from the charge of the court that the matter in dispute before the jury was whether the defendants did the burning, and not whether they burned the barn without the illegal…
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