State v. . Wilson
Supreme Court of North Carolina
INDICTMENT for larceny and receiving stolen goods, knowing them to have been stolen, tried before Cline, J., and a jury, at August Term, 1918, of Yadjiin. A quantity of goods was stolen from tbe Gilmer Bros. Company, of Winston-Salem, during tbe early spring of tbis year. Among tbe porters wbo worked at tbe store were Jim Houser and Hurley Houser, wbo lived in Yadkinville. Tbe stealing bad been going on for some montbs.
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INDICTMENT for larceny and receiving stolen goods, knowing them to have been stolen, tried before Cline, J., and a jury, at August Term, 1918, of Yadjiin. A quantity of goods was stolen from tbe Gilmer Bros. Company, of Winston-Salem, during tbe early spring of tbis year. Among tbe porters wbo worked at tbe store were Jim Houser and Hurley Houser, wbo lived in Yadkinville. Tbe stealing bad been going on for some montbs. Mr. Gilmer, tbe secretary-treasurer of tbe company, went witb tbe officers to Yadkinville a Sunday later, provided tbemselves witb search warrants, and found goods of tbe…
1Opinion of the Court
Walkeb, J.,
after stating tbe case: Tbe defendant’s counsel, in their brief, do not insist on their exception to tbe refusal of tbe court to non-suit tbe State upon tbe evidence. This exception, tben, will be taken as. waived; but there being some evidence of guilt, tbe refusal to nonsuit was proper. S. v. Carlson, 171 N. C., 818.
We will now consider tbe assignments of error, in tbe order of their statement in tbe record:
1. Tbe defendant objected to tbe following testimony of tbe witness, Thompson: “Rube denied any knowledge of this property until we caught tbe other parties, and Hurley Houser…
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