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  "id": 1955429,
  "name": "THE STATE v. HENRY ROYSTER",
  "name_abbreviation": "State v. Royster",
  "decision_date": "1871-06",
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  "first_page": "539",
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      "cite": "65 N.C. 539"
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    "name_abbreviation": "N.C.",
    "id": 9292,
    "name": "Supreme Court of North Carolina"
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    "name_long": "North Carolina",
    "name": "N.C."
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    "parties": [
      "THE STATE v. HENRY ROYSTER."
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    "opinions": [
      {
        "text": "Eodman, J.\nAmong our domestic animals, such as horses, \u2022cattle, sheep and hogs, castrated males are known and called, .geldings, steers, wethers and barrows; and those not castrated, stallions, bulls, rams and boars; and the question in this \u25a0case, is this, can a defendant, indicted for stealing one of these .animals by the name by which he is called when castrated, be \u2022convicted, when on the trial it turns out that the animal stolen was not castrated, and in that condition was known and called by a different name ? As in our case, the defendant being charged in the indictment with stealing a steer, and on .the trial, it appeared that the animal stolen was a bull.\nThe law in such a case, is too well settled, to require the \u2022citation of any authorities.\nThere is no error.\nPee Curiam. Judgment affirmed.",
        "type": "majority",
        "author": "Eodman, J."
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    "attorneys": [
      "Attorney General, for the State.",
      "No counsel for defendant."
    ],
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    "head_matter": "THE STATE v. HENRY ROYSTER.\nThe defendant is entitled to an acquittal, when the indictment charges the stealing of a steer, whilst the evidence shows that it was a lull.\nLarceny tried before Waits, J.., at Spring Term, 1871, of 'Granville Superior Court.\nThe indictment, charged the property stolen by the defendant as a steer, and the proof showed that it was a lull. The Jury found a special verdict to this effect and asked the opinion of the Court, &e. Thereupon his Honor adjudged that \u2022defendant was not guilty, from which the Solicitor for the State appealed.\nAttorney General, for the State.\nNo counsel for defendant."
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