State v. . Preston
Supreme Court of North Carolina
Appeal— Transcript— Certiorari. This was a criminal action, commenced in the Court of a Justice of the Peace and tried before Boykin, J., at Spring Term, 1889, of Washington Superior Court. The case is stated in. the opinion.
1Opinion of the Court
Merrimon, J.:
At the present -term the Attorney General moved to dismiss this appeal, upon the ground that the appellant failed to file, in this Court, a proper transcript of the record of the case in the Superior Court.
The loose, disorderly and confused papers on file, intended, it seems, to constitute such a transcript, cannot be so treated. They purport to be simply a State warrant, issued by a Justice of the Peace against the appellant. It does not appear that he was ever arrested by virtue of it, or at all, or that he was ever tried for the offence charged in it, or that he appealed from…
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