State v. Starnes
Supreme Court of North Carolina
Indictment for rape, tried before Phillips, Judge, and a jury, at Spring Term, 1885, of the Superior Court of Union county. The defendant was convicted, and from the judgment of death pronounced, appealed.
1Opinion of the CourtSmith, C. J.
The prisoner is charged with having committed a feloneous assault and rape, upon the body of Rosa Ann Hyatt, in an indictment which the record, after setting out the names of the grand jurors and the appointment of their foreman, says, was by them “ returned into open Court, by the hands of J. M. Terrell, foreman,” on Tuesday of the first week of Spring Term, of Union Superior Court, with endorsed thereon over the foreman’s signature, “ a true bill.” Upon its being made to appear to the Court that the prisoner was without counsel and unable to employ any, the Court assigned, as such, four…
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