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  "id": 8683910,
  "name": "STATE v. SIMON JORDAN",
  "name_abbreviation": "State v. Jordan",
  "decision_date": "1876-06",
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  "first_page": "27",
  "last_page": "28",
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      "cite": "75 N.C. 27"
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  "court": {
    "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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  "provenance": {
    "date_added": "2019-08-29",
    "source": "Harvard",
    "batch": "2018"
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  "casebody": {
    "judges": [],
    "parties": [
      "STATE v. SIMON JORDAN."
    ],
    "opinions": [
      {
        "text": "Reads, J.\nWhenever there is a criminal intent to commit a felony \u2014 as in this case burglary \u2014 and some act is done amounting to an attempt to accomplish the purpose without doing it, the perpetrator is indictable as for a misdemeanor. Wharton\u2019s Criminal Law, sec. 2,696. The King v. Higgins, 2 East. R. 4, is a very full and satisfactory authority.\nIt was error to quash the indictment. This will be certified.\nPer Curiam. Judgment reversed.",
        "type": "majority",
        "author": "Reads, J."
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    ],
    "attorneys": [
      "Attorney G&neral Hargrove, with whom was Bledsoe, for the State,",
      "No counsel for the defendant in this .Court."
    ],
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    "head_matter": "STATE v. SIMON JORDAN.\nWhenever there is a criminal1 intent to- commit a felony, and some aei is (lone-amounting to an attempt to accomplish the purpose without doing it, the perpetrator is indictable as for a misdemeanor.\nINDICTMENT for an attempt io- commit burglary, tried before Moore, J., at December (Special) Term, 1875, of Halifax Superior Court.'\nThe bill of indictment charges that the defendant \u201c did attempt to commit an offence prohibited by law, to wit: did feloniously, burglariously, maliciously and secretly attempt to break and enter the dwelling house of one Spier Whitaker, there situate, in the night time of the day aforesaid,, by being then and there in the porch of said dwelling house, and by then and there endeavoring feloniously, burgla-riously, maliciously and secretly, to break open the door and' window of said dwelling house with the intent, &e.\u201d\n' Upon motion of the prisoner\u2019s counsel, his Honor quashed the bill and the State appealed.\nAttorney G&neral Hargrove, with whom was Bledsoe, for the State,\ncited : Wharton\u2019s Crim. Law, sec. 2,696 ; R\u00e9x v. Kin\u00a1~ nersley, 1 Str. 193; The King-v. Higgins, 2 East\u2019s R. 4..\nNo counsel for the defendant in this .Court."
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