State v. . Arnold
Supreme Court of North Carolina
Appeal from the Superior Court of Law of Columbus Comity, at the Fall Term, 1851, his Honor Judge Battle presiding. This is an indictment for the murder of Simon Dyson. The prisoner appeared at his trial, in October, 1850,. to be small boy, but his age was not stated. Evidence was given on the part of fhe State, that, within a week or- two before the homicide, the prisoner had several times expressed ill-will towards the deceased, and threatened to kill him.
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Appeal from the Superior Court of Law of Columbus Comity, at the Fall Term, 1851, his Honor Judge Battle presiding. This is an indictment for the murder of Simon Dyson. The prisoner appeared at his trial, in October, 1850,. to be small boy, but his age was not stated. Evidence was given on the part of fhe State, that, within a week or- two before the homicide, the prisoner had several times expressed ill-will towards the deceased, and threatened to kill him. One Alatilda Merritt then deposed : That the prisoner’s father lived three or four hundred yards from the house in which she resided,…
1Opinion of the CourtRuffin, C. J.
- The Court is of opinion that neither of the objections to the evidence is valid. As to the first, it is to be observed, that the details of the conversation be; tween the deceased and Merritt, were brought out by tha prisoner — the State proving, only, that they talked about the prisoner. The most that can be said against that is, that it was irrelevant. -The Court is not obliged to waste time and protract trials, by admitting irrelevant evidence, and, to an exception for the rejection of evidence, it is a sufficient answer, that it was irrelevant. But an exception to the admission of…
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