State v. Dockery

The defendant excepts to and assigns as error the admission of a statement made by him in connection with a preliminary hearing of his son, Allen Dockery, before a Justice of the Peace on 1 March, 1953. His son having been bound over to the Superior Court, the defendant, Noah Dockery, made inquiry as to the amount of bond required for the release of his son pending his trial in the Superior Court. He was advised that the bond was $500.00. He then inquired if he could make it. He was informed that he could do so if he was worth $500.00 over and above exemptions. He said: “I can’t make it,” and…