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  "name": "STATE v. JOHN P. ROBBINS",
  "name_abbreviation": "State v. Robbins",
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  "first_page": "431",
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    "name": "Supreme Court of North Carolina"
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    "parties": [
      "STATE v. JOHN P. ROBBINS."
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    "opinions": [
      {
        "text": "Faircloth, J.\nAfter hearing and considering the conflicting evidence, the. jury by their verdict have said the defendants \"were guilty. No error in the conduct of the action has been pointed out to us, and we are unable to discover any in the record. Let this be certified in order that judgment may be pronounced.\nNo error.\nPer Curiam. Judgment affirmed.",
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        "author": "Faircloth, J."
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    "attorneys": [
      "Attorney General and Mr. G. N. Folk, for the State.",
      "No counsel for the defendants."
    ],
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    "head_matter": "STATE v. JOHN P. ROBBINS.\nIndictment \u2014 Assault and Battery \u2014 Judge\u2019s Charge.\nWhere on the trial of an indictment for an assault and battery, committed upo.n the prosecutor, a school teacher while engaged in his-school, the Court charged the jury that \"\u2018if the defendant went to the school-house for a lawful purpose and after he got there he brought on the affray by any language or conduct of his own, he' would be guilty Held not to be error.\nINDICTMENT for an Assault and Battery tried at Fall Term, 1877, of Watauga Superior Court, before Cloud, J.\nThe defendant and his three sons were indicted for an \u2019 assault upon one Purley. The prosecutor testified among other things that he was teaching a common school linder\u00eda contract with two of the School Committee of the District; that the defendant who was the other memberjof said committee upon passing the school house went to the door thereof and inquired of the witness, what he was doing ; he informed him, he was teaching school, having been employed by the other two committeemen; that defendant denied this statement and called the witness a liar, and the witness struck him and knocked him out of the door. 'There was much other evidence tending to show that the parties cursed each other, and that the prosecutor also called \u2022the defendant a liar. Iiis Honor in his charge to the jury \u25a0said-, \u201cif the defendant went to the school house for a lawful purpose, and after he got there, he brought on the affray by :any language or conduct of his own, he would be guilty.\u201d (See Stale v. Perry, 5 Jones 9.) Defendant excepted. Verdict of guilty as t\u00a9 two of the defendants. Judgment. Ap peal by defendants.\nAttorney General and Mr. G. N. Folk, for the State.\nNo counsel for the defendants."
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