State v. . Dickson
Supreme Court of North Carolina
INDICTMENT against the Town Commissioners of Morgan-ton for failing to keep a public street of the town in proper repair, tried before L. L. Green, J., at Fall Term, 1898, of the Superior Court of Bubjke County. The indictment was as follows : The State oe Noeth Caeoeina — Bueee County.
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INDICTMENT against the Town Commissioners of Morgan-ton for failing to keep a public street of the town in proper repair, tried before L. L. Green, J., at Fall Term, 1898, of the Superior Court of Bubjke County. The indictment was as follows : The State oe Noeth Caeoeina — Bueee County. Superior Court, Fall Term, 1898. The jurors for the State upon their oaths present, that John A. Dickson, R. K. Presnell, John Garrison, T. J. Gilliam, Sam Huffman, and N. L. Beach, Commissioners of the town of Morganton, late of the County of Burke, on the 1st day of May, in the year of our Lord, one…
1Opinion of the Court
Douglas, L
This is a criminal action founded upon a bill of indictment charging that the defendants “Commissioners of the town of Morganton,” on the first day of May, 1897, “unlawfully and wilfully did fail, refuse and neglect to have the road leading from the depot to Hunting Creek worked out and kept in proper repair, the same being a public road or street and within the corporate limits of the town of Morganton.”
The defendants moved to quash the bill, which motion was granted, and the State appealed.
The ground of the motion does not appear in the record; but is thus stated in the brief of…
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