State v. . Pippin
Supreme Court of North Carolina
INDICTMENT for fornication and adultery tried at Fall Term, 1882, of Martin Superior Court, before Gilliam, J. The defendants appealed.
1Opinion of the CourtSmith, C. J.
The defendants (George H. Pippin and Tabitha Hawkins) are charged with maintaining an illicit sexual intercourse during the two years preceding the finding of the bill of indictment, and, on the trial, to prove the offence, evidence was admitted of their being seen in bed together at a tinte antecedent to that protected by the statute of limitations.
The court charged the jury that it was competent for them to consider the relations between the parties as subsisting more than two years before the finding of the bill, and the other circumstances in evidence, including the fact that for the past…
2Cases cited1 opinion
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