State v. . Parish
Supreme Court of North Carolina
INDICTMENT for Larceny tried at May Term, 1878, of Waice Criminal Court, before Strong, J. It was in evidence that John Jones had lost two sheep between the 20th and 28th of August, 1876, and that the defendant at that time owned no sheep.
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INDICTMENT for Larceny tried at May Term, 1878, of Waice Criminal Court, before Strong, J. It was in evidence that John Jones had lost two sheep between the 20th and 28th of August, 1876, and that the defendant at that time owned no sheep. One Dick Yonng, a witness for the State, testified that soon after Jones lost them he saw the sheep shut up in an old out house in possession of defendant, and a short distance from his residence; that when he saw them he was in company with his son, Thomas Young, the witness next introduced, whose testimony corroborated the above, and during whose…
1Opinion of the Court
Reads, J
It can scarcely be satisfactory to any mind to say that if a witness testifies to a statement to day under oath, it strengthens the statement to prove that he said the same thing yesterday when not under oath. If the proposition were reversed, as if one make a statement to day not under oath, it strengthens the statement to show that he .said the same yesterday under oath, it would be conceded because of the sanction of the oath. And vet it must be conceded that it is settled by the weight of authority both. of text writers and decided eases that when a witness testifies to a…
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