Supreme Court of North Carolina September 5, 1892 (State v. . McKinney)

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Clark, J.:

The first exception is without merit. The excluded evidence was neither competent nor relevant. It might be called, possibly, “ negative hearsay,” for lack of a better word — that is, the offer was to show that the prisoner could find no hearsay evidence that anyone had loaned the prisoner a pistol. It would not have been competent to show that there was or was not such a report.