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  "name": "STATE v. CHARLIE BREWER, HARVEY BREWER, and WILLIAM BREWER",
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      "STATE v. CHARLIE BREWER, HARVEY BREWER, and WILLIAM BREWER."
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        "text": "AllbN, J.\nTbe evidence of tbe prosecuting witness, Robert Hudson, which tbe jury has accepted, is sufficient to sustain a conviction of tbe 'defendants, and while there is much evidence tending to prove tbe innocence of tbe defendants, and particularly of tbe defendant Harvey Brewer, it is not within our province to pass on tbe credibility of tbe testimony.\nWe can only consider tbe errors of law alleged to have been committed, and upon a review of tbe record we find nothing to justify a reversal of tbe judgment.\nThe motion to quash the indictment, made after the plea of not guilty had been entered, because a witness for the State was a member of the-grand jury which found the bill, was addressed to the discretion of the court, and the ruling thereon is not reviewable. S. v. Burnett, 142 N. C., 577.\nThe court might also have declined to consider the motion because the .defect did not appear on the face of the record, and had to be established by extraneous evidence, the remedy in such case being by plea in abatement, and not by motion to quash.\nWe are also less inclined to attach importance to the objection of the defendants, because it appears that the witness did not participate in the deliberations of the grand jury when the bill was considered, and did' not vote on finding the bill, thus excluding all idea that the defendants: have been prejudiced.\nIn S. v. Wilcox, 104 N. C., 847, it was held that \u201cThe fact that a. member of the grand jury which returned a true bill for perjury, was. one of the petit jury that tried the issues in an action wherein it was-charged the perjury was committed, is not good ground for abating or quashing the indictment. He was bound by his oath as a grand juror to communicate to his fellows the information he had acquired as a petit juror.\u201d\nAlso in S. v. Sharp, 110 N. C., 604: \u201cPlea in abatement filed before pleading generally to an indictment is the proper way to raise the question of the qualification of an individual grand juror. Such plea will not be sustained, unless it shows the want of some positive qualification prescribed by law. . . . The fact that the son of the prosecutor, in an indictment for larceny, was a member of the grand jury, and actively participated in finding the bill, did not vitiate the indictment, and it was error to quash it on that ground.\u201d\nIn Krause v. State (Neb.), Ann. Cases, 1912 B, 736, the Court goes, further, holding that: \u201cIt is not a good plea in abatement to an indictment that it was returned by a grand jury of which the complaining-witness was a member.\u201d\nThe other exceptions, eighteen in number, relate to evidence, except' two that are formal.\nThey present no new question, and there can be no practical benefit, in discussing them seriatim.\nWe have considered them with the care and diligence the importance of the case demands, and see no sufficient reason for setting aside the verdict.\nNo error.",
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        "author": "AllbN, J."
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    "attorneys": [
      "Attorney-General Manning and Assistant Attorney-General Nash for the State.",
      "N. B. J ones, JS. JS. Baper, and Craig e & Vogler for defendants."
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    "head_matter": "STATE v. CHARLIE BREWER, HARVEY BREWER, and WILLIAM BREWER.\n(Filed 17 November, 1920.)\n1. Appeal and Error \u2014 Evidence\u2014Matters of Law.\nOnly errors of law can be considered on appeal to tbe Supreme Court, and the judgment of the Superior Court will not be disturbed when there is sufficient evidence to support tbe verdict, upon an exception relating to its weight and credibility.\nS. Indictment \u2014 Criminal Law \u2014 Motion to Quash \u2014 State\u2019s Witness \u2014 Grand Jury.\nA motion to quash an indictment made after the plea of not guilty, will not be granted on the ground that a witness for the State, in a criminal action, was a member of the grand jury, that found the true bill, especially when it appears that he took no part therein.\n3. Same \u2014 Courts\u2014Discretion.\nThe denial of a motion to quash an indictment, made upon the ground that a State\u2019s witness in the action was a member of the grand jury that found the true bill, and after the plea of not guilty will not be disturbed on appeal, the matter being one exclusively addressed to the discretionary power of the trial judge.\n\u20224. Criminal Law \u2014 Indictment\u2014Motions to Quash \u2014 Pleas\u2014Abatement.\nWhere the defect does not appear on the face of the record, but requires extraneous evidence to support the motion, the remedy is by plea in abatement, and not by motion to quash.\nAppeal by defendant from Bay, J., at tbe August Term, 1920, of DavidsoN.\nThis is an indictment under section 3627 of tbe Revisal.\nTbe defendants were convicted, and appealed from tbe judgment pronounced on the verdict.\nAttorney-General Manning and Assistant Attorney-General Nash for the State.\nN. B. J ones, JS. JS. Baper, and Craig e & Vogler for defendants."
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