State v. . Woodly
Supreme Court of North Carolina
This was an iNdictmeht, tried before PeksoN, Judge, for carrying, conveying and concealing a slave, in order that be might escape; at Spring Term, 1855, of Bertie Superior Court.
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This was an iNdictmeht, tried before PeksoN, Judge, for carrying, conveying and concealing a slave, in order that be might escape; at Spring Term, 1855, of Bertie Superior Court. The first count in the indictment was as follows, viz : “ State of North Carolina,) Superior Court of Law, Spring Bertie County, j Term, 1855. The jurors for the State, upon their oath present, that Alfred "Woodly, and Bichard Wynns, free persons of color, late of said county, with force and arms, at and in Bertie county aforesaid, on the thirteenth day of January, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred…
1Opinion of the CourtBattle, J.
The counsel for the prisoner has urged several objections to the legality of the proceedings on the trial, which, as he contends, entitle his client to a venire ele novo, and if that be not granted him, he has insisted, for several reasons, that the judgment shall be arrested.
Two of the alleged errors are of the same import with some of those which were assigned, and have been overruled by us, in the case of the State v. Joseph T. Williams, decided at the present term, (ante 257.) Of the remainder, it will be necessary to notice with much particularity only one, and upon that we are, of…
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