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  "name": "STATE v. E. L. AVERY",
  "name_abbreviation": "State v. Avery",
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      "STATE v. E. L. AVERY."
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    "opinions": [
      {
        "text": "Per Curiam.\nThe form of the third count in the indictment is approved in S. v. Dowdy, 145 N. C., 434, and a general verdict, as in this ease, upon an indictment containing several counts, will he sustained if one is good. S. v. Tisdale, 61 N. C., 220; S. v. Holder, 133 N. C., 710; S. v. Dowdy, 145 N. C., 432. The motions to quash the indictment and in arrest of judgment were, therefore, properly overruled.\nThere are several exceptions in the record to rulings upon evidence, and to parts of'his Honor\u2019s charge, but as there are no assignments of error, they cannot be considered.\nNo error.",
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    "attorneys": [
      "Attorney-General Bichett and Assistant Attorney-General T. U. Calvert for the State.",
      "T. C. Wooten cmd Murray Allen for defendant."
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    "head_matter": "STATE v. E. L. AVERY.\n(Filed 28 May, 1912.)\nIntoxicating Liquors \u2014 Unlawful Sales \u2014 Indictment\u2014Several Counts \u2014General Verdict \u2014 Appeal and Error.\nThe defendant was convicted under a general verdict of guilty upon an indictment charging these counts: (1) of unlawfully engaging in the business of retail liquor dealer; (2) of selling the liquor by the small measure: (3) for selling it for gain; and having moved to quash the bill of indictment and in arrest of judgment, he renewed his motion on appeal: Sel cl, the motion to quash because of the general verdict should be denied.\nAppeal by defendant from Justice, J'., at the October Term,. 1912, of LeNoie.\nThe defendant was convicted upon an indictment containing three counts. The first count charges that the defendant \u201cdid unlawfully and willfully engage in the business of a retail liquor dealer\u201d; the second, that he \u201cdid sell and retail to a person or persons unknown a quantity of spirituous liquors by the small measure, to wit, by a measure less than a quart, without having a license from the State of North Carolina to so sell\u201d; and the third, that he \u201cdid unlawfully and willfully sell spirituous and intoxicating liquors to a person or persons, to the jurors unknown, for gain.\u201d\nThe defendant moved to quash the bill of indictment, and in arrest of judgment, and excepted to the denial of each motion, and these motions are renewed in this Court.\nThere was a verdict of guilty, and from the judgment pronounced thereon the defendant appealed.\nAttorney-General Bichett and Assistant Attorney-General T. U. Calvert for the State.\nT. C. Wooten cmd Murray Allen for defendant."
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