State v. . Fishblate
Supreme Court of North Carolina
Ikdictment against the mayor and aldermen of the city of Wilmington, tried at February Term, 1880, of New Han» over Criminal Court, before Meares, /. The defendants moved to quash the indictment, the motion was allowed, and the state appealed.
1Opinion of the CourtSmith, C. J.
The defendants, the mayor and aldermen of Wilmington, are charged with a neglect of official duty in failing to remove certain obstacles in some of the streets of the city, impediments in the way of their use, and for suffering them to become ruinous and in decay for want of necessary reparation.
The defendants moved the court to quash the indictment for several defects specified in the record, and among others, that the indictment fails to point out the particular public duty neglected, or by what statute they are required to remove the obstacles or to repair the streets. The court sustained…
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