The North Carolina Criminal Code and Digest: Embracing the Statutory Criminal Law, of a General and Public Nature, of North Carolina, Contained in Vols. 1 and 11 of "The Code," as Amended by the Acts of 1885, and the Several Offences Created by Said Acts : Together with Full and Complete Digests of All the Criminal Cases Decided by the Supreme Court Since June Term, 1879, from the 82d to the 92d Reports, Inclusive

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Edwards, Broughton Print. Company, 1886 - 335 pages

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Page 296 - Columbia, the person so charged shall, at his own request, but not otherwise, be a competent witness. And his failure to make such request shall not create any presumption against him.
Page 321 - Names, nor for omitting to state the Time at which the Offence was committed, in any Case where Time is not of the Essence of the Offence, nor for stating the Time imperfectly, nor for stating the Offence to have been committed on a Day subsequent to the finding of the Indictment or...
Page 58 - And be it enacted, that if any person being married, shall marry any other person during the life of the former husband or wife, whether the second marriage shall have taken place in England or elsewhere, every such offender, and every person counselling, aiding, or abetting such offender, shall be guilty of felony...
Page 239 - If any person or persons shall wilfully do, or cause to be done, any act or acts whatever, whereby any building, construction or work of any railroad corporation, or any engine, machine or structure, or any matter or thing appertaining to the same, shall be stopped, obstructed, impaired, weakened, injured or destroyed, the person or persons so offending shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and shall forfeit and pay to the said corporation treble the amount of damages sustained by means of such offense.
Page 243 - States, conspire to overthrow, put down, or to destroy by force the Government of the United States, or to levy war against them, or to oppose by force the authority thereof, or by force to prevent, hinder, or delay the execution of any law of the United States...
Page 320 - Person so named and another or others, as the Case may be ; and whenever in any Indictment or Information for any Felony or Misdemeanor it shall be necessary to mention, for any Purpose whatsoever, any Partners, Joint Tenants, Parceners or Tenants in Common, it shall be sufficient to...
Page 58 - Majesty, or to any person marrying a second time, whose husband or wife shall have been continually absent from such person for the space of seven years then last past, and shall not have been knownby such person to be living within that time...
Page 163 - A juror in answer to the question whether he had formed and expressed an opinion as to the guilt or innocence of the prisoner...
Page 24 - ... together with the principal felon, or after the conviction of the principal felon, or may be indicted and convicted of a substantive felony whether the principal felon shall or shall not have been previously convicted, or shall or shall not be amenable to justice...
Page 82 - Rescuing any person or property in the custody of an officer by virtue of an order or process of such court; 8.

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