State v. Goode
Supreme Court of North Carolina
INDICTMENT against Lucinda Goode, beard by Judge W. 8. O’B. Robinson, at September Term, 1901, of tbe Superior Court of Waee County. Erom a verdict of guilty and judgment tbereon, tbe defendant appealed. Tbe prosecuting witness, a white man, went to tbe bouse of defendant, ■ an old colored woman, to collect some money on furniture wbicb bad been sold to ber husband on tbe installment plan. She invited him into ber house and to take a seat; be told bis errand.
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INDICTMENT against Lucinda Goode, beard by Judge W. 8. O’B. Robinson, at September Term, 1901, of tbe Superior Court of Waee County. Erom a verdict of guilty and judgment tbereon, tbe defendant appealed. Tbe prosecuting witness, a white man, went to tbe bouse of defendant, ■ an old colored woman, to collect some money on furniture wbicb bad been sold to ber husband on tbe installment plan. She invited him into ber house and to take a seat; be told bis errand. She said she could not pay, and bis testimony is that be went to examine the bedstead, when tbe defendant batted him on tbe back of bis…
1Opinion of the CourtClark, J.
Whether there was excessive force used or not was a question for the jury, not for the Court. The defendant’s testimony was fuller than that of the prosecutor, But was not contradicted by him, and taking.it to.be true,, as his Honor assumed, and as must be done on the virtual demur rer to ber evidence, these are tbe facts: Two strangers, one of them a white man, came to the defendant’s home; she invited the latter in politely, and gives him her rocking-chair; without showing any credentials, he demands pay for her bedstead; upon her saying she had no' money and asking him to wait till her…
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