State v. . Burnett
Supreme Court of North Carolina
Appeal by defendants from Bryson, J., at Fall Term, 1922, of Polk. . The defendants were convicted of manufacturing spirituous liquors. Tbe appeal presents a number of unusual questions, but we do not deem it necessary to notice but tbe two or three main contentions of tbe defendants, which will sufficiently cover tbe case and tbe points presented by defendants’ counsel in tbeir very able and learned brief, wbicb was supplemented by a strong oral argument in tbis Court.
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Appeal by defendants from Bryson, J., at Fall Term, 1922, of Polk. . The defendants were convicted of manufacturing spirituous liquors. Tbe appeal presents a number of unusual questions, but we do not deem it necessary to notice but tbe two or three main contentions of tbe defendants, which will sufficiently cover tbe case and tbe points presented by defendants’ counsel in tbeir very able and learned brief, wbicb was supplemented by a strong oral argument in tbis Court. At the same term of court, the case of 8. v. Andrew Spicer, Sampson Spicer, and J. B. Jaclcson, who also were charged with…
1Opinion of the CourtWalker, J.
As the indictment against the defendants was returned a true bill in open court on Tuesday, 5 September, 1922, it is manifest that, if the statute of limitations applies to this offense, the prosecution was barred, it having been committed more' than two years before the bill was found, and so it was urged by the defendants.
Laws of 1903, ch. 391, was an act entitled “An act to prohibit the manufacture and sale of spirituous liquors in Polk County.” The-manufacture of liquor under this special act was prohibited by section 1 thereof, and punished as provided in section 5, which declares that a…
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