State v. . Lawson

The following is the case stated by his Honor, so far as the opinion of the court renders it necessary that it shall be given.

The prisoner, Lawson, then a slave, and George, a free man of color, were indicted at Fall Term, 1864, of Cabarrus Superior Court, for a burglary committed upon the dwelling-house of John Petre. . . . On the second day after the burglary had been committed, several persons came together at the house of the prosecutor, to aid him in detecting the perpetrators and recovering his lost property. Information indicated George and Lawson as the criminals. The former lived…