State v. Moore.
Supreme Court of North Carolina
• INDICTMENT against Amos Moore and others, heard by Judge A. L. Cobh and á jury, at April Term, 1901, of the Superior Court of Pitt County.
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• INDICTMENT against Amos Moore and others, heard by Judge A. L. Cobh and á jury, at April Term, 1901, of the Superior Court of Pitt County. The defendants, Amos Moore, Ashley Dixon, Jesse -Edwards and Joseph Edwards, were tried and convicted upon the following bill of indictment, viz: “The jurors for the State, upon their oath, present': That Albert Rountree, Amos Moore, Ashley Dixon, Jesse Edwards, Joseph Edwards, John Smith, late of Pitt County, on the 9th day of February, 1901, with force and arms, in said county, 50 lbs. of meat, 20 lbs. flour, 10 lbs. sugar, 4 boxes tobacco, 6 pair…
1Opinion of the Court
Cook, J.,
after stating the case. While the bill of indictment is inartificially and carelessly drawn, yet no such defect appears upon its face as would authorize the Court in quashing it, or arresting judgment after verdict.
In the first count, several articles are alleged to have been stolen, and the valuation placed upon them all is fixed at fifty dollars. Among the articles appears one not the subject of larceny, “meat,” but all the others are, and are of substantial value; to all or any one of which, if shown to have been stolen, the valuation assigned would attach, and proof of larceny of…
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