State v. Chambers.
Supreme Court of North Carolina
Appeal by defendant from Bay, J., at May Term, 1920, of Eocit-INGHAM. The defendant was indicted and tried for subornation of perjury at the May Term, 1920, of Eockingham Superior Court.
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Appeal by defendant from Bay, J., at May Term, 1920, of Eocit-INGHAM. The defendant was indicted and tried for subornation of perjury at the May Term, 1920, of Eockingham Superior Court. The State’s evidence tended to show that at the August Term, 1919, four young men, Will Tolbert, Henry Chambers (son of defendant), Will Olowers, and a man by the name of Fox were indicted for breaking, entering, and stealing from the store of Edmonds at Leaksville, N. C., and the case stood for trial at that term. Of these defendants Tolbert and Henry Chambers were present, Fox and Glowers had run away. On…
1Opinion of the Court
Waliíer, J.,
after stating tbe case: Tbe first six exceptions relate to tbe examination of witnesses by tbe State as to what occurred at tbe trial of Will-Tolbert, in which tbe perjury was alleged to have been committed. This testimony was competent for several purposes, and, among them, to show tbe commission of tbe perjury and tbe threats and coercion of tbe defendant to bring it about, and also to corroborate tbe State’s witnesses who testified at tbe trial of this case. There are other reasons which sustain tbe rulings of tbe court not necessary to be set out in much detail, as they are…
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