State v. . Martha Queen
Supreme Court of North Carolina
This was an indictment for assault and battery, tried before Mitchell, Judge, at Fall Term of Wilkes Superior Court. The facts of this case are fully stated in the opinion of the Court. Under instructions from the Court, there was a verdict of guilty. Judgment by the Court, and appeal by the defendant.
1Opinion of the CourtBoydeN, J.
In this case a warrant had issued, on the 27th day of October 1870, by W. A Foster, an acting Justice of the Peace, against the defendant and her two sons and daughter ; and one Tedder, the children being minors, charging-them with larceny of a cow, the property of one Trensaw.
The warrant was executed on the two sons and Tedder,, by a constable, Anderson, but not on the defendant Martha, on account of alleged sickness. On the next day (Nov. 1,1870,). the warrant was returned, and at the instance of the defendants, was postponed until the 8th day of November, and the defendants who had then…
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