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  "id": 8698154,
  "name": "The State v. Willie Clemons",
  "name_abbreviation": "State v. Clemons",
  "decision_date": "1832-12",
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  "first_page": "472",
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    "name_abbreviation": "N.C.",
    "id": 9292,
    "name": "Supreme Court of North Carolina"
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    "name_long": "North Carolina",
    "name": "N.C."
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    "parties": [
      "The State v. Willie Clemons."
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    "opinions": [
      {
        "text": "Ruffin, Judge.\n\u2014\nThis is an indictment against the master; and it is founded on a misconception of the act of 1794. The statute directs the grand jury, to make \u201cpresentment of any slave.\u201d The great purpose of the act is to prevent and abate the nuisance, as was said in Woodman\u2019s case. The proceeding is therefore primarily against that; and the notice to the master is to give him an opportunity, as in other cases, of defending his slave, and not defending himself personally. It is tx*ue, the on net* is indirectly punished, by having his slave hired out for one year. But that is only the incidental consequence of the judgment. The personal liability of the master, is for the penalty of twenty pounds. The act does not make him guilty of a misdemeanor, nor subject him to indictment.\nThe judgment of the Superior Court is therefore reversed, and the judgment arrested.\nPer Curiam. \u2014 Judgment reversed.",
        "type": "majority",
        "author": "Ruffin, Judge."
      }
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    "attorneys": [
      "No counsel appeared for the defendant.",
      "The Attorney-General for the State.'"
    ],
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    "head_matter": "The State v. Willie Clemons.\n\u25a0The act of 1794, ( Rev c. 406,) to prevent owners of slaves from hiring to them their time, does not subject the master to an indictment, the x-emedy being against the slave alone.\nThe defendant was convicted on the following indictment :\n\u201c The jurors for the Slate, upon their oath, present that Willie Clem\u201cons, late of, &c. on 8cc. with force and arms at, &c. unlawfully did \u201c permit his slave by the name of March to hire his own time to divers \u201c persons, to the jurors aforesaid unknown, contrary to the act of the \u201cGeneral Assembly, in such case made and provided, and against,' &c.\nThe defendant was convicted and judgment for the State being rendered by Daniel Judge, on the last circuit at Beaufort, he appealed.\nNo counsel appeared for the defendant.\nThe Attorney-General for the State.'"
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