State v. . Dewer
Supreme Court of North Carolina
Indictment for wilfully burning a barn containing grain^ tried-before Toiorgee, Jat Spring Term, 1871, of Chatham Superior Court. The defendants with Henderson Nash, Hardy Stewart, Luke-Olive and Wyatt Boylan, wrere jointly indicted for wilfully and feloniously setting fire to and burning a barn, containing grain,, the property of one James IT. Minims.
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Indictment for wilfully burning a barn containing grain^ tried-before Toiorgee, Jat Spring Term, 1871, of Chatham Superior Court. The defendants with Henderson Nash, Hardy Stewart, Luke-Olive and Wyatt Boylan, wrere jointly indicted for wilfully and feloniously setting fire to and burning a barn, containing grain,, the property of one James IT. Minims. During the progress of the trial the Solicitor for the State-offered to prove that the defendants Wilson W. Dewer and* William Battle, advised, abetted, aided and procured their co-defendants to burn the said barn, to which defendants…
1Opinion of the CourtPeaeson, C. J.
The act 1868-9, ch. 167, entitled: “ An ■act in relation to punishment” abolishes the punishment of death, except for the crimes of murder and rape, and substitutes imprisonment in the State’s prison for life or for years, for the crime of burning a barn with grain in it; the term is -not less than five, nor more than sixty years. The act also abolishes whipping and other corporeal punishments, and sub■stitutes imprisonment in the State’s prison.
To support the ruling of his Honor, it is necessary to establish the proposition, that the effect of this statute, is to make all felonies, except…
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