State v. . Crowell

The Code, section 1177, excepts from the two years statute of limitation, perjury, forgery, malicious misdemeanors, and deceit. There has never been such an indictable offense as "deceit," but the meaning of this section has always been that misdemeanors, the gist of which was malice or deceit, are within the exception. In S. v. Christainbury,44 N.C. 46, it was held that there being no such offense as "deceit," it would apply to "cheating by false token" of which deceit was the gist, but would not include "conspiracy to cheat" "the gist of (1057) which offense is the conspiracy and the…