State v. . Long
Supreme Court of North Carolina
IkdictMeNT against tbie defendant as Overseer of a Public Road, tried at Spring Term, 1879, of Alexander Superior Court, before Graves, J. The facts necessary to an understanding of the case are set out by Mr. Justice Dillard in delivering the opinion of this court. There was a verdict of guilty; judgment, appeal by defendant. /
1Opinion of the CourtDillard, J.
On the trial in the superior court from which the present appeal comes, the case states that there was evidence tending to prove that defendant was overseer at and during the summer of 1875, and for several years prior to that time; that in June, 1875, he had summoned hands and worked the road, and about that time the brother of defendant, during his absence from the county, had also warned in the hands and worked the road; when one Pennell, clerk to the board of township trustees and a witness for the state, was on the stand, the defendant on cross-examination proved by him, that about a…
2Cases cited1 opinion
- State v. . LongSupreme Court of North Carolina · 1877