State v. . Crawley
Supreme Court of North Carolina
INDICTMENT, under The Code, § 1120, tried before Armfield, J., at Spring Term, 1889, of Buree Superior Court. The defendant was arrested upon a criminal warrant, and convicted before a Justice of the Peace of the offence of having unlawfully and wilfully entered upon the land of the prosecutrix, after having been forbidden by her so to do, and without a license, in violation of the statute (The Code, § 1120). Thereupon, he appealed to the Superior Court, and there pleaded…
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INDICTMENT, under The Code, § 1120, tried before Armfield, J., at Spring Term, 1889, of Buree Superior Court. The defendant was arrested upon a criminal warrant, and convicted before a Justice of the Peace of the offence of having unlawfully and wilfully entered upon the land of the prosecutrix, after having been forbidden by her so to do, and without a license, in violation of the statute (The Code, § 1120). Thereupon, he appealed to the Superior Court, and there pleaded formally not guilty. There was a verdict' of guilty, and judgment thereupon, against him, and he having excepted, appealed…
1Opinion of the CourtMerrimon, J.
(after stating the facts). On the trial, the evidence produced by the State tended strongly to prove the defendant’s guilt. He “claimed to enter under a bona fide claim of right and title, and offered to show title to the land in himself, which the Court excluded,” and among other things not necessary to be reported here, it said to the jury, “ that even if there was a parol license (which prosecutrix denied), it could be revoked, and defendant could not justify under it, and after being forbidden, if the defendant had entered inside of the field of the prosecutrix, that she had held in…
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