State v. Wilson
Supreme Court of North Carolina
INDICTMENT for conspiracy to procure a' fraudulent marriage in order to encompass the seduction and defilement of two women, tried before Adams, J., and a jury at Spring Term, 1897, of YaNCEY Superior Court.
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INDICTMENT for conspiracy to procure a' fraudulent marriage in order to encompass the seduction and defilement of two women, tried before Adams, J., and a jury at Spring Term, 1897, of YaNCEY Superior Court. The indictment was as follows: “The jurors, etc., present that Plato Ray, Hiram Wilson, and William Fender, etc., on the first day of March, 1896, with force and arms, etc., unlawfully and wilfully and felon-iously did conspire, combine, confederate, and agree together, wickedly knowingly, falsely, feloniously, and designedly, to procure, by false pretenses, false representations, and…
1Opinion of the Court
Clark, J.:
The defendants, Plato Ray, Hiram Wilson and Will Fender, are charged with a conspiracy to procure Hattie Phillips and Plettie Phillips to have carnal intercourse with said Ray'and Wilson through sham marriages celebrated before a person not authorized, and thereby seducing the women named through their belief that it was a valid marriage.
The indictment is very inartificially drawn, though as to form its defects are probably cured by The Code, Section 1183. The objection that the Judge, in sentencing Wilson to three years on the public roads, recited as reasons for the severity of…
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