Supreme Court of North Carolina June 5, 1871 (State v. . Deaton)

Boyden,

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The Court at first, thought that the decision of this case might be put upon the question of jurisdiction alone, and we were disposed to put the decision upon that ground, and thereby save the scandal that must and often does arise by the investigation of such cases in the Superior Courts; but upon a close examination of the wording of the statute, we think this cannot be done, as the