State v. . Dickson
Supreme Court of North Carolina
INDICTMENT for false pretence tried at Fall Terra, 1882, of Cumberland Superior Court, before Gilmer, J. The bill of indictment is as follows : “ The jurors for the state, upon their oath present, that John Dickson, late of the county of Cumberland, on the first day of March, 1882, with force and arms at and in the county aforesaid, devising and intending to cheat and defraud one John McRae of his goods, money, and property, unlawfully, knowingly and designedly did fals.ely…
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INDICTMENT for false pretence tried at Fall Terra, 1882, of Cumberland Superior Court, before Gilmer, J. The bill of indictment is as follows : “ The jurors for the state, upon their oath present, that John Dickson, late of the county of Cumberland, on the first day of March, 1882, with force and arms at and in the county aforesaid, devising and intending to cheat and defraud one John McRae of his goods, money, and property, unlawfully, knowingly and designedly did fals.ely pretend to the said John McRae, that he, the said John Dickson, had run three clamps of timber from Davis’ bridge in…
1Opinion of the CourtAshe, J.
There was an exception taken by the defendant to the testimony of the prosecutor, but it amounts to nothing, especially after the testimony of Starke was introduced. It was properly overruled.
His next exception was to the refusal of the court to instruct the.jury that there was no evidence of the falsity'of defendants representation. We concur with the ruling of His Honor upon this point, and are of the opinion that there was not only evidence of the falsity of the defendants representation, but that it was sufficient, with the proof of the other ingredients of the crime with which he was…
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