Coward v. Commissioners.
Supreme Court of North Carolina
ActioN by O. B. Coward against tbe Commissioners of Jackson County, beard by Judge G. S. Ferguson, at January Term, 1904, of tbe Superior Court of Jackson County. From a judgment for the plaintiff tbe defendants appealed.
1Opinion of the CourtClark., C. J.
The question presented is the liability of the county of Jackson for costs of State’s witnesses in State v. Long, who was indicted in that county for murder, but whose cause was removed to the Superior Court of Macon County. After the removal to the latter court a nolle prose-qui was entered as to murder in the first degree, and the witnesses were subpoenaed to the next term, at which the prisoner was tried for murder in the second degree and convicted of manslaughter. The witnesses for the State were entitled to their mileage and fees in full so long as attending court as witnesses upon the…
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