State v. . Rawles
Supreme Court of North Carolina
This was an indictment, in which the defendants, a father and three sons, were charged in three counts with, first an affray, secondly a riot, and thirdly an assault upon one Charles Odom.
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This was an indictment, in which the defendants, a father and three sons, were charged in three counts with, first an affray, secondly a riot, and thirdly an assault upon one Charles Odom. On the trial before Pool, Judge, at the .last term of the Superior Court for the County of Hereford, the prosecutor testified that early in the morning in January, 1869, he was on the public road, engaged in putting up his fence, which had been knocked down; that he there saw the defendant, Braxton Rawles, who was going in the direction of the house of his father, David Rawles, which was about half a mile…
1Opinion of the CourtSettle, J.
The prosecutor while in the public road engaged in putting up his fence meets with Braxton Eawles, one of the defendants, with whom there is some conversation in relation to knocking down the fence. They separate, and in a few moments David Eawles with his three other sons are seen coming down the road towards the prosecutor, when they meet Braxton, he returns with them, David, the father, using threatening and insulting language. When they get within seventy-five or one hundred yards of the prosecutor, David Eawles calls to him and says, “ come back here and let me whip you,” and he tells…
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