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  "name": "The State v. Henry Waller",
  "name_abbreviation": "State v. Waller",
  "decision_date": "1819-05",
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  "first_page": "229",
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    "name_abbreviation": "N.C.",
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    "name": "Supreme Court of North Carolina"
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    "name_long": "North Carolina",
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      "The State v. Henry Waller."
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    "opinions": [
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        "text": "Henderson, Judge,\ndelivered the opinion of the Court:\nPrivate drunkenness is no offence by our municipal laws. It becomes so by being open and exposed to public view, to that extent that it thereby becomes a nuisance, commune uocumentum ; and that is a question of fact to be tried by the Jury. There being no charge in this indictment to that effect, the Jury has not, and could not pass on it; which being of the very essence of the crime, the judgment must be arrested.",
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    "head_matter": "The State v. Henry Waller.\n1 I From Edgecombe. J\nIndictment charged, that Defendant was a common, gross, and notorious drunkard, and that he, on divers days and times, got grossly drunk.\u2014 Judgment arrested, for\nPrivate drunkenness is no offence by our municipal laws. It becomes so, by being open and exposed to public view, so as to become anuisance. It must be so charged, and the Jury must so find it, before the Court can render Judgment.\nThe indictment charged, \u201cthat Henry Waller, late of \u201c the County of Edgecombe, yeoman, on the first day of \u201c January, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight \u201c hundred and seventeen, and on divers other clays and \u201c times, as well before as afterwards, was, and yet is, a \u201c common, gross, and notorious drunkard, and that he, on \u201c ^10 sa^ ^anuaiT\u2019 i*1 the year aforesaid, and e\u2018 on divers, other days and times,, in the County aforesaid, \u201c did then and there get grossly drunk, and. commit open \u201c and notorious drunkenness, contrary to morality, to the \u201c great displeasure of Almighty God, and to the evil ex- \u201c ample of all others in like cases offending, and against \u201c the peace and dignity of the State.\u201d\nThe Defendant submitted, and it was moved in arrest of judgment, that the offence, as charged in the indictment, was not indictable; and the case being sent to this Court,"
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