State v. . Watson
Supreme Court of North Carolina
IndictmeNt for Larceny, tried before Schenck, J., at the Spring Term, 1876, of the Superior Court of Anson County. The defendant was indicted for stealing ten pounds of bacon, and on the trial in the Court below was found guilty. His counsel moved in arrest of judgment, for the want of jurisdiction. Judge ScAencic, presiding in the 9th Judicial District, had partially exchanged Courts with Judge Bux-ton, of the 5th District, in which Anson County is included.
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IndictmeNt for Larceny, tried before Schenck, J., at the Spring Term, 1876, of the Superior Court of Anson County. The defendant was indicted for stealing ten pounds of bacon, and on the trial in the Court below was found guilty. His counsel moved in arrest of judgment, for the want of jurisdiction. Judge ScAencic, presiding in the 9th Judicial District, had partially exchanged Courts with Judge Bux-ton, of the 5th District, in which Anson County is included. This exchange was with the consent of his Excellency, Governor Beogden, who commissioned Judge Schencic to hold' Anson Court. The…
1Opinion of the CourtRodman, J.
The defendant was convicted of larceny at Spring Term, 1876, of the Superior Court of Anson (which is in the 5th Judicial District), held by Schenck, Judge of the 9th Judicial District, under a commission from the Governor ; and he therefore moved in arrest of judgment “ for want of jurisdiction,” without specifying more particularly the ground for the motion. As the indictment is in the usual form, and the defendant has no counsel in this Court, we should have been at a loss to conjecture the groundbut the Attorney General suggests that probably the supposed ground is to be found in the…
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