State v. . Norwood
Supreme Court of North Carolina
INDICTMENT for larceny and receiving goods knowing them to be stolen, tried before his Honor Judge Moore, and a jury, at July (Special) Term, 1875, of the Superior Court of GkaN ville comity. ■ The defendant, a white man, was indicted for stealing tobacco, the property of a colored man. In his argument to the jury the solicitor alluded to this fact and urged them to guard against the prejudice of race.
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INDICTMENT for larceny and receiving goods knowing them to be stolen, tried before his Honor Judge Moore, and a jury, at July (Special) Term, 1875, of the Superior Court of GkaN ville comity. ■ The defendant, a white man, was indicted for stealing tobacco, the property of a colored man. In his argument to the jury the solicitor alluded to this fact and urged them to guard against the prejudice of race. His Honor in his charge urged the jury “ to decide the case by the evidence alone; that on account of the color of the defendant they should require no other or stronger proof to convict him…
1Opinion of the CourtPeaRSON, C. J.
We have given to the elaborate argument of the counsel for the defendant full consideration, and do not, by the aid of it, see in the charge, or in the manner of submitting the case to the jury, any error of which the defendant has a right to complain.
The propriety of the allusion by the Solicitor to the fact, that the prosecutor was a' colored man and the defendant a white man, depends on the incidents and surroundings of the trial, which are not set out in the statement of the case. But the defendant has no ground on which to complain of the charge, for his Honor holds the scales of justice…
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