State v. Brown
Supreme Court of North Carolina
INDICTMENT, for slandering an innocent woman, under § 1113 of The Code, tried before Connor, J, and a jury, at Fall Term, 1887, of Bladen Superior Court. The defendant is charged, under § 1113 of The Code, with attempting, in a wanton and malicious manner, to destroy the reputation of one Sue 0. Smith, an innocent woman, by the speaking of the words set out in the indictment and imputing incontinency, he well knowing them to be false when so uttered.
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INDICTMENT, for slandering an innocent woman, under § 1113 of The Code, tried before Connor, J, and a jury, at Fall Term, 1887, of Bladen Superior Court. The defendant is charged, under § 1113 of The Code, with attempting, in a wanton and malicious manner, to destroy the reputation of one Sue 0. Smith, an innocent woman, by the speaking of the words set out in the indictment and imputing incontinency, he well knowing them to be false when so uttered. Upon his arraignment and plea of hot guilty, he was tried and convicted before the jury, and, from the judgment rendered thereon, appealed to…
1Opinion of the CourtSmith, C. J.
(After stating the facts). 1. The question put to the witness, Allen, as to his permitting the witness Jones to visit in his family, after his voluntary disclosure of his own immoral conduct, is put to ascertain his estimate of a good character, and its value as evidence to the jury, and for this, its obvious purpose, we see no just objection.
2. The exception to the inquiry of the Judge, addressed to counsel of defendant, if it would be fair to permit a declaration of an absent person, imputing criminality to the prose-cutrix, to be given in, and refuse to hear his subsequent denial of the…
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