State v. . Brown
Supreme Court of North Carolina
The defendant was tried and convicted at August Term, 1886, of the Superior Court of Lemoir county, before Clark, Judge, of the crime of embracery, and from the judgment thereon, appealed to the Supreme Court. The case is stated in the opinion.
1Opinion of the Court
Smith. C. J.
The defendant is charged with the offence known in the criminal law as embracery, committed in a wilful and corrupt attempt to influence the deliberations and verdict of a petty jury empanelled to pass upon the guilt of J. L. Stroud and Samuel Howard, accused of and tried for larceny, after their retirement. The indictments, three in number, found by the grand jury at the same term and treated as separate counts in a single bill, under the ruling in State v. Johnson, 5 Jones, 221, and State v. Watts, 82 N. C., 650, vary the form of the charge in slight particulars only, and aver…
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