{
  "id": 11959627,
  "name": "State vs. Moody",
  "name_abbreviation": "State v. Moody",
  "decision_date": "1798-03",
  "docket_number": "",
  "first_page": "31",
  "last_page": "32",
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      "type": "nominative",
      "cite": "2 Hayw. 31"
    },
    {
      "type": "official",
      "cite": "3 N.C. 31"
    }
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  "court": {
    "name_abbreviation": "N.C. Super. Ct.",
    "id": 22358,
    "name": "North Carolina Superior Court"
  },
  "jurisdiction": {
    "id": 5,
    "name_long": "North Carolina",
    "name": "N.C."
  },
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  "last_updated": "2023-07-14T20:25:52.833864+00:00",
  "provenance": {
    "date_added": "2019-08-29",
    "source": "Harvard",
    "batch": "2018"
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  "casebody": {
    "judges": [
      "Et per Haywood, judge."
    ],
    "parties": [
      "State vs. Moody."
    ],
    "opinions": [
      {
        "text": "Per curiam.\n-Declarations of the deceased have sometimes been received, but then they must be the declarations of a dying man, of one so near his end that no hope of life remains, for then the solemnity of the occasion is a good security for his speaking the truth, as much so as if he were under the obligation of an oath ; but if at the time of making the declaration he has reasonable prospects and hope of life, such declarations ought not to-be received 5 for there is room to apprehend he may be actuated by motives of revenge and ;ui irritated mind, to declare what possibly may not be true.\nEt per Haywood, judge.\nThough it may not be proper to receive tisis paper as containing the declarations of the deceases;!, it may be a question whether it may not be received as an e;:<i-aminauou taken on oath before a jusJce of the Peace, pursuant to the act of Assembly prescribed Tor such depositions in cases of felony j when regularly taken pursuant to the act, aud the witness afterwards dies, it imy be read ui uvi .1-.:.'!;,: ; more espemJfo if the party tobe affected by that testimony were present? at the examination, as the prisoner was in the present case.\nBadger, for the prisoner. I conceive it cannot be read, because the Justice says he believes the deceased was first examined and what he said taken down, and then he was sworn to the truth-of the contents; he should have been first sworn to tell the whole truth and then what he. said taken down ; as he was sworn he might have sworn truly and yet not to all he knew..\nStone, Judge.\u2014I connot think this paper is receivable at any rate ; how is it-possible a man can be a witness to prove his own deaf!'.?\nHaywood, Judge, thinking there might be-something in Badger\u2019s objection, did not insist upon receiving the testimony.\nSuit was rejected.",
        "type": "majority",
        "author": "Per curiam."
      }
    ],
    "attorneys": [],
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    "head_matter": "State vs. Moody.\nTNDICTMENT for the murder of one Mason, not guilty *\u25a0 pleaded 5 and upon the trial the Attorney General offered in evidence, the examination of the deceased, taken upon oath and subscribed by him before a justice of the Peace on the day after he bad received the wounds: He died six or seven weeks af-terwards. It was offered as the declarations of the deceased."
  },
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