State v. . Reynolds
Supreme Court of North Carolina
This was an indktmknt against the defendant for tearing down and demolishing a certain house alleged to be the property of one F. T. Baldwin, tried before Boykin, Judge, at the February Term, 1886, of Richmond ¡Superior Court.
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This was an indktmknt against the defendant for tearing down and demolishing a certain house alleged to be the property of one F. T. Baldwin, tried before Boykin, Judge, at the February Term, 1886, of Richmond ¡Superior Court. The facts were, substantially, that the land upon which the houses in question were situated, was a lappago upon land which the prosecutor had purchased from one W. F. Roper, and that claimed by the defendants, which John Reynolds, one of them, had bought from one Usry, and had first obtained a bond for title, and subsequently a deed for the same, delivered after the…
1Opinion of the Court
Ashe, J.,
(after stating the facts). We are of opinion there was error in the charge given by his Honor to the jury. His Honor’ should have charged them that upon the evidence they should find the defendants not guilty. In the case of State v. Williams, Busb., 197, which was an indictment under the same statute, it was held that, “ to subject a person to the penalties of the act, he must be guilty of trespass.” And again, in State v. Watson, 86 N. C., 626, which was an indictment preferred for a violation of the same ■statute, this Court, speaking through RueeiN, J., refer to the case of State…
2Cases cited1 opinion
- State v. . WatsonSupreme Court of North Carolina · 1882
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- State v. . CrenshawSupreme Court of North Carolina · 1886
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