State v. Telfair
Supreme Court of North Carolina
INDICTMENT against Asbury Telfair, heard by Judge E. W. Timberlake and a jury, at October Term, 1901, of the Superior Court of EeanKlin County. From a verdict of guilty on a special verdict, and judgment thereon, the defendant appealed.
1Opinion of the CourtMontgomery, J.
Does the statute, The Code, Sec. 2019, require that the summons to a person liable to road duty' shall be in writing or printing ? is the question before us for decision. Tbe language of The Code section is that the overseer of the road “shall summon/’ and that “the notice * * * shall state the hour and the place/’ etc.; and the contention of the defendant’s counsel is that the summons must necessarily be in writing, first, because, as The Code, Sec. 217, in which is provided the manner of service of the summons, requires that a copy shall be delivered, a verbal summons, therefore, is out of…
2Cases cited1 opinion
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