The North Carolina Criminal Code and Digest: A Complete Code of All the Criminal Statutes of the State, Including Those Passed by the Legislature of 1899 : Also a Complete Digest of Every Criminal Case in the North Carolina Reports Up to and Including the 124th ; with a Table of Cases Digested, and a Table of Cases Overruled, Criticised, Followed, Distinguished and Approved

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Edwards & Broughton Law Pub., 1899 - Criminal law - 633 pages

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Page 147 - 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 22 - In the case of mixtures or compounds which may be now or from, time to time hereafter known as articles of food, under their own distinctive names, and not an imitation of or offered for sale under the distinctive name of another article...
Page 406 - An officer de facto is one whose acts, though not those of a lawful officer, the law, upon principles of policy and justice, will hold valid so far as they involve the interests of the public and third persons, where the duties of the office...
Page 278 - 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 202 - Any person who shall falsely make, forge, or counterfeit, or cause or procure to be falsely made, forged, or counterfeited, or willingly aid or assist in falsely making, forging, or counterfeiting any...
Page 147 - ... but that every person so offered may and shall be admitted to give evidence on oath, or solemn affirmation in those cases wherein affirmation is by law receivable, notwithstanding that such person may or shall have an interest in the matter in question, or in the event of the trial of any issue, matter, question or...
Page 21 - First. If any substance has been mixed and packed with it so as to reduce or lower or injuriously affect its quality or strength.
Page 22 - Where any matter or ingredient not injurious to health has been added to the food or drug because the same is required for the production or preparation thereof as an article of commerce, in a state fit for carriage or consumption and not fraudulently to increase the bulk, weight, or measure of the food or drug, or conceal the inferior quality thereof...
Page 277 - 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 518 - Greenwich, not being in the possession or under the protection of any civilized power, shall be fined not more than fifty dollars, or imprisoned not more than three months, or both.

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