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  "id": 8683757,
  "name": "State v. Coulter",
  "name_abbreviation": "State v. Coulter",
  "decision_date": "1791-04",
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  "first_page": "4",
  "last_page": "5",
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      "type": "nominative",
      "cite": "1 Hayw. 4"
    },
    {
      "type": "official",
      "cite": "2 N.C. 4"
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  "court": {
    "name_abbreviation": "N.C. Super. Ct.",
    "id": 22358,
    "name": "North Carolina Superior Court"
  },
  "jurisdiction": {
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    "name_long": "North Carolina",
    "name": "N.C."
  },
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  "provenance": {
    "date_added": "2019-08-29",
    "source": "Harvard",
    "batch": "2018"
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  "casebody": {
    "judges": [],
    "parties": [
      "State v. Coulter."
    ],
    "opinions": [
      {
        "text": "Note. \u2014 Vide Heward v. Shipley, 4 East\u2019s Rep. 178.",
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    "head_matter": "HILLSBOROUGH,\nAPRIL TERM, 1791.\nState v. Coulter.\nA person entitled to a reward, offered by the General Assembly, on the conviction o\u00ed an offender, is a competent witness ag.iinst such offender.\nIndictment for horse-sterling. \u2014 The General Assembly, at their last session, bud offered a reward to any person who would apprehend him, to he \u00a1laid upon conviction. Stokes .rpjit. hended him for sleaiing his horse j and ou\\ upon trial of ibe indictment for stealing this horse. Stoke*-, was offered as a witness on the part of the State ; and though it was strongly objected that he. ought not to be received, as it depended upon Coulter\u2019s conviction whether he should be entitled to the reward promised by the General Assembly, and that he could not be entitled to it unless Coulter should he convicted. Yet per curiam, consisting of Spencer & Macay, be is a competent witness, and must be received : and he was received and gave evidence accordingly, and upon bis evidence Coulter was convicted, and received judgment of death, and was executed. Vide 2 H. H. P. C. 304, 280, 281."
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