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109 N.C. 859

13 S.E 784

State v. . Neal

Supreme Court of North Carolina

Decided September 5, 1891

Supreme Court of North Carolina · decided 1891-09-05

This was a CRIMINAL ACTION for failure to work on a public road, tried on appeal from a Justice of the Peace, before Winston, J., at August Term, 1891, of ORANGE Superior Court. The facts are sufficiently stated in the opinion.

Cited by 2 later decisions — most recently December 1909

1 state decisions

Good law ✅— No negative treatment on recordhow we know

Decided 1891-09-05

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Shepherd, J.:

¶1 The warrant simply charges that the defendant “ wilfully refused to attend and work on the public road after being lawfully warned, contrary to the form of the statute,” etc.

¶2*860 There is nothing to negative the payment of one dollar in discharge of the defendant’s liability to perforin the labor required of him. No amendment was asked at any stage of the trial, either before or after verdict, and upon conviction the defendant moved in arrest of judgment.

¶3 It is expressly decided that the motion should have-been allowed. State v. Pool, 106 N. C., 698 ; State v. Baker, 106 N. C., 758. The insufficiency of the warrant was not, we presume, called to the attention of his ITonor, the argument before him being addressed to the constitutionality of the act under which the defendant was prosecuted.

¶4 Error.

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