Supreme Court of North Carolina September 5, 1887 (State v. . Dickerson)

Mebkimon, J.,

(after stating the case). The first objection cannot be sustained. The evidence proposed and excluded, if it had been received, would not have tended to prove any legal excuse for the excessively severe whipping — beating— the defendant gave the boy, his apprentice; nor would it have tended to rebut or disprove malice implied, and which the jury might infer from such whipping.