Legal Opinion

State v. . Crockett

Supreme Court of North Carolina

Decided January 5, 1880PublishedCited by 8 opinions

Indictment for an Assault upon and resisting an officer, tried at Special Term, 1880, of Wake Superior Court, before Avery, J. The facts appear in the opinion. Verdict of guilty, judgment, appeal by defendant.

1Opinion of the CourtSmith, C. J.

The defendant is charged in a single count with assaulting and beating one George Lane, an acting deputy of the sherriff, with intent to resist the officer and prevent his own arrest for an unlawful assault upon his wife committed in presence of said officer, and upon his trial was found guilty. No complaint was made of the instructions given the jury, dnd no others asked.

The only point presented in the case which accompanies the appeal is the admissibility of certain declarations made to Lane by a brother of the defendant. The material facts testified to by Lane and others, bearing upon the…

2Cases cited1 opinion

  1. State v. . BallardSupreme Court of North Carolina · 1878

3Cited by8 opinions

  1. State v. . MartinSupreme Court of North Carolina · 1921
  2. State v. WalkerSupreme Court of North Carolina · 1960
  3. State v. . BurtonSupreme Court of North Carolina · 1886
  4. State v. . KeathSupreme Court of North Carolina · 1880
  5. State v. . PorteeSupreme Court of North Carolina · 1931

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