Supreme Court of North Carolina January 5, 1874 (State v. . Covington)

ByNüM, J.

The counsel for the defendant, asked the court below, to instruct the jury that in order to make the defendant guilty, under the indictment, he must have entered in such way, and with such an exhibition of force as was calculated to excite terror and to intimidate; and further, that even if the defendant had abandoned the crop on the two acres, there wras evidence of sufficient force,