{
  "id": 8633337,
  "name": "STATE v. FELTON BASS and MARVIN BASS (Consolidated)",
  "name_abbreviation": "State v. Bass",
  "decision_date": "1938-10-19",
  "docket_number": "",
  "first_page": "831",
  "last_page": "832",
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      "type": "official",
      "cite": "214 N.C. 831"
    }
  ],
  "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": "2023-07-14T22:38:13.292364+00:00",
  "provenance": {
    "date_added": "2019-08-29",
    "source": "Harvard",
    "batch": "2018"
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  "casebody": {
    "judges": [],
    "parties": [
      "STATE v. FELTON BASS and MARVIN BASS (Consolidated)."
    ],
    "opinions": [
      {
        "text": "Pee Oubiam:.\nThe evidence appearing in the record on this appeal presents a question of fact for the jury. After careful consideration, we are unable to find error in the trial, and the judgment must stand.\nNo error.",
        "type": "majority",
        "author": "Pee Oubiam:."
      }
    ],
    "attorneys": [
      "Attorney-General McMullan and Assistant Attorneys-General Bruton and Wettach for the State.",
      "B. L. Godwin for defendants, appellants."
    ],
    "corrections": "",
    "head_matter": "STATE v. FELTON BASS and MARVIN BASS (Consolidated).\n(Filed 19 October, 1938.)\nAppeal by defendants from Hamilton, Special Judge, at March, 1938, Term of HarNett.\nCriminal prosecution on indictment charging perjury.\nThe defendants are charged with falsely testifying as witnesses under oath in the trial of civil action in the Superior Court of Harnett County, wherein the Dunn Electric Company was plaintiff and Ammie Jones was defendant, in wbicb action plaintiff was seeking to recover damages for alleged breach of contract for the purchase of a Delco lighting plant.\nThe State offers testimony of Ammie Jones and others tending to show that at the trial of the civil action at May Term, 1937, the defendants herein falsely testified under oath in substance that, on 5 October, 1928, they, as employees of the Dunn Electric Company, built the concrete base for the lighting plant and wired the house and store of the defendant, when in fact the concrete base was built and the wiring was done by Jack Barnes when he installed a Fairbanks plant which Ammie Jones had purchased after he declined to take the Delco plant. The cost of building the concrete base and the wiring were set up as elements of damage. Defendants did not testify.\nYerdict: Guilty, with recommendation of mercy.\nJudgment: Two years confinement in the State\u2019s Prison.\nAttorney-General McMullan and Assistant Attorneys-General Bruton and Wettach for the State.\nB. L. Godwin for defendants, appellants."
  },
  "file_name": "0831-02",
  "first_page_order": 899,
  "last_page_order": 900
}