{
  "id": 8616303,
  "name": "STATE v. BOSE FAIN",
  "name_abbreviation": "State v. Fain",
  "decision_date": "1930-12-19",
  "docket_number": "",
  "first_page": "87",
  "last_page": "87",
  "citations": [
    {
      "type": "official",
      "cite": "200 N.C. 87"
    }
  ],
  "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": [],
  "analysis": {
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    "ocr_confidence": 0.43,
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  "last_updated": "2023-07-14T16:40:42.579520+00:00",
  "provenance": {
    "date_added": "2019-08-29",
    "source": "Harvard",
    "batch": "2018"
  },
  "casebody": {
    "judges": [],
    "parties": [
      "STATE v. BOSE FAIN."
    ],
    "opinions": [
      {
        "text": "Feb Cubiam.\nThe evidence for the State at the trial of this action tended to show that defendant was seen in the company of a young woman who had in her possession- articles of personal property, which had been stolen. There was no evidence tending to show that defendant had had said property in his possession or that he had given the same to his companion. Evidence tending to show friendly relations between the defendant and the woman, in whose possession the articles were found, was not sufficient to show that defendant broke and entered the store from which the property was stolen, that he had stolen the property or had received the same, knowing it to have been stolen. There was error in the refusal of defendant\u2019s motion for judgment as of non-suit, at the close of the evidence for the State. For this reason the judgment must be\nReversed.",
        "type": "majority",
        "author": "Feb Cubiam."
      }
    ],
    "attorneys": [
      "Attorney-General Brwrnnitt and Assistant Attorney-General Nash for the State.",
      "Moody & Moody for defendant."
    ],
    "corrections": "",
    "head_matter": "STATE v. BOSE FAIN.\n(Filed 19 December, 1930.)\nCriminal Law G m \u2014 Evidence in this case held insufficient- to sustain conviction.\nEvidence only that defendant was on friendly terms with a young woman in whose possession stolen property was found is insufficient to convict him of housebreaking, larceny, or receiving stolen goods of which he is charged in the bill of indictment, and nonsuit should have been entered.\nAppeal by defendant from Harwood, Special Judge, at April Term, 1930, of Cheroiiee.\nReversed.\nThis is a criminal action in which defendant was tried on an indictment charging housebreaking, larceny and receiving stolen goods, knowing them to have been stolen. There was a verdict of guilty.\nFrom judgment that defendant be confined in the State\u2019s prison for a term of not less than twelve nor more than fifteen months, defendant appealed to the Supreme Court.\nAttorney-General Brwrnnitt and Assistant Attorney-General Nash for the State.\nMoody & Moody for defendant."
  },
  "file_name": "0087-01",
  "first_page_order": 155,
  "last_page_order": 155
}