State v. . Outerbridge
Supreme Court of North Carolina
INDICTMENT for Murder, tried at Fall Term, 1879, of Bertie Superior Court, before Avery, J. The prisoner is charged with the killing of one Peter Freeman in the county of Bertie. The first exception touching the qualification of a juror is stated in the opinion of this court.
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INDICTMENT for Murder, tried at Fall Term, 1879, of Bertie Superior Court, before Avery, J. The prisoner is charged with the killing of one Peter Freeman in the county of Bertie. The first exception touching the qualification of a juror is stated in the opinion of this court. The evidence was as follows: One Seabrill, a witness for the state, testified that on the 17th of September, 1879, (the day on which the homicide is alleged to have been committed) he was engaged in rafting timber on the Roanoke river, and tiiat deceased and four other men were in his employ ; that after getting through…
1Opinion of the CourtAshe, J.
The questions presented for our decision in this case arise from the exceptions taken to the ruling of His Honor in the progress of the trial, and we will consider them in the order in which they were taken:
1. Two of the jurors who were drawn were challenged by the prisoner for cause, and the cause assigned was that they had acted as grand or petit jurors within two years next preceding that court. They stated on their examination that they had served as petit jurors in the inferior court for that county, but had not acted as grand or petit jurors within two years next preceding that term of…
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