State Ex Rel. Solicitor v. Jenkins
Supreme Court of North Carolina
ActioN by the State of North Carolina on the relation of the Solicitor, against N. Jenkins and others on a bond for the appearance of defendant Larkin Jenkins before a Justice of the Peace, tried before Hoke, J., and a jury, at Spring Term, 1897, of Caldwell Superior Court. There was judgment for the plaintiff and defendants appealed.
1Opinion of the Court
Furches, J.:
The defendant, Jenkins, and others were arrested on a warrant issued by one Ballew, a Justice of the Peace, upon a charge of burning a mill house of one Con-nelly. Upon affidavit of defendants the case was moved for trial before E. B. Phillips, another Justice of the Peace, on the 9th of November, 1895, fixed for the time of trial. The defendant, Larkin Jenkins, was required by the Court to enter into bond in the sum of one thousand dollars for his appearance before said Phillips on the 9th of November, and in lieu of personal surety, the defendant, Nicholas Jenkins, and his wife…
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