{
  "id": 11269926,
  "name": "STATE v. WELDON HORTON",
  "name_abbreviation": "State v. Horton",
  "decision_date": "1914-03-25",
  "docket_number": "",
  "first_page": "437",
  "last_page": "437",
  "citations": [
    {
      "type": "official",
      "cite": "166 N.C. 437"
    }
  ],
  "court": {
    "name_abbreviation": "N.C.",
    "id": 9292,
    "name": "Supreme Court of North Carolina"
  },
  "jurisdiction": {
    "id": 5,
    "name_long": "North Carolina",
    "name": "N.C."
  },
  "cites_to": [],
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  "last_updated": "2023-07-14T20:23:48.430184+00:00",
  "provenance": {
    "date_added": "2019-08-29",
    "source": "Harvard",
    "batch": "2018"
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  "casebody": {
    "judges": [],
    "parties": [
      "STATE v. WELDON HORTON."
    ],
    "opinions": [
      {
        "text": "Pee Oueiam.\nTbe principal exception relied on by the defendant is to the refusal to instruct the jury that the evidence would not justify a conviction.\nWe have carefully examined the record, and are of opinion that the evidence of the prosecutrix, corroborated as it was by statements made by her as soon as she met any one with whom she could talk, is sufficient to establish an assault accompanied by the unlawful intent, and that the instruction was properly refused.\nThe other prayers for instruction were substantially given in the charge.\nThe one exception to evidence is untenable and requires no discussion.\nNo error.",
        "type": "majority",
        "author": "Pee Oueiam."
      }
    ],
    "attorneys": [
      "Attorney-General Biclcett and Assistant Attorney-General Calvert for the State.",
      "W. M. Person for defendant."
    ],
    "corrections": "",
    "head_matter": "STATE v. WELDON HORTON.\n(Filed 25 March, 1914.)\nCriminal Law \u2014 Rape\u2014Evidence Sufficient.\nTestimony of tlie prosecutrix in this case, corroborated by her statement of the occurrence made to the witnesses as soon as she was in circumstances to make them, held sufficient to 'sustain a conviction of the defendant of an attempt to commit rape.\nxIppeal by defendant from Goohe, Jat October Term, 1913, of FRANKLIN.\nThe defendant was convicted of an assault with, intent to commit rape, and upon judgment being pronounced against bim, appealed.\nAttorney-General Biclcett and Assistant Attorney-General Calvert for the State.\nW. M. Person for defendant."
  },
  "file_name": "0437-01",
  "first_page_order": 479,
  "last_page_order": 479
}