{ "id": 8698073, "name": "STATE v. DRURY LONG and others", "name_abbreviation": "State v. Long", "decision_date": "1878-01", "docket_number": "", "first_page": "571", "last_page": "573", "citations": [ { "type": "official", "cite": "78 N.C. 571" } ], "court": { "name_abbreviation": "N.C.", "id": 9292, "name": "Supreme Court of North Carolina" }, "jurisdiction": { "id": 5, "name_long": "North Carolina", "name": "N.C." }, "cites_to": [ { "cite": "67 N. C. 381", "category": "reporters:state", "reporter": "N.C.", "opinion_index": -1 }, { "cite": "66 N. C. 130", "category": "reporters:state", "reporter": "N.C.", "opinion_index": -1 }, { "cite": "77 N. C. 261", "category": "reporters:state", "reporter": "N.C.", "case_ids": [ 8682590 ], "opinion_index": 0, "case_paths": [ "/nc/77/0261-01" ] }, { "cite": "67 N. C. 281", "category": "reporters:state", "reporter": "N.C.", "case_ids": [ 2092653 ], "opinion_index": 0, "case_paths": [ "/nc/67/0281-01" ] }, { "cite": "66 N. C. 120", "category": "reporters:state", "reporter": "N.C.", "case_ids": [ 11276661 ], "opinion_index": 0, "case_paths": [ "/nc/66/0120-01" ] } ], "analysis": { "cardinality": 304, "char_count": 3824, "ocr_confidence": 0.491, "pagerank": { "raw": 3.1337340030585587e-07, "percentile": 0.8614453970096326 }, "sha256": "afbeafc1da33ed03d4977ee92d2b17164970a395a8d18c7ce624338ad7729839", "simhash": "1:b304b0e2b8ec53b8", "word_count": 653 }, "last_updated": "2023-07-14T19:04:18.240606+00:00", "provenance": { "date_added": "2019-08-29", "source": "Harvard", "batch": "2018" }, "casebody": { "judges": [], "parties": [ "STATE v. DRURY LONG and others." ], "opinions": [ { "text": "Smith, C. J.\nThis indictment seems to have been drawn under Bat. Rev. ch. 64 \u00a7 15, against Drury Long, \u2014 tenant and lessee of land, the rent of which was to be a share of' the crop, \u2014 for removing the crop grown on the land without the lessor\u2019s consent and without the notice prescribed in the statute, and against the other defendants, \u2014 as acting under the license of Long and aiding and abetting in the unlawful act. The bill was found by the grand jury at December Term, 1876, ofG-uilford Superior Court, and tried at March Term, following. The defendant, J. W, AVood, was acquitted and the other defendants found guilty; and from the judgment rendered against them, they appealed to this Court.\nThe section referred to in Battle\u2019s Revisal, as also the two sections immediately preceding, were amended, and others substituted in their place by an Act of the General Assembly, ratified on the 19th of March, 1875, Laws 1874-'5, ch. 209. Subsequently another Act was passed, which was ratified and took effect on the 12th of March, 1877, (Laws 1876-\u201977 ch. 283) the 8th section of which in express terms repeals \u00a7 \u00a7 13, 14, 15, ch. 64. Bat. Rev. and ch. 209, of the Acts of 1874-75, and-makes (\u00a76) the.removal of the crop or any part of it from the land on which it is grown,, with-' out payment of rent, without the lessor\u2019s consent, and without his having five days notice of the intended removal, a misdemeanor. These enactments seem to have escaped the attention of the Solicitor.\nIt is well settled that the repeal of a statute pending a prosecution for an offence created under it, arrests the proceeding and withdraws all authority to pronounce judgment even after conviction; audit is equally clear that no aid can be derived from the last enactment which is necessarily prospective only in its operation, and under the Constitution cannot apply to antecedent acts. State v. Nutt, Phil. 20; State v. Wise, 66 N. C. 120, and 67 N. C. 281. The motion here made in arrest of judgment is allowed.\nError.\nPee Cueiam. Judgment arrested.\nAt the end of the first sentence of the 'statement of the case in Capehart v. Biggs & Co., 77 N. C. 261, the following words (upon re-examination of the papers) should have been inserted, \u2014 \u25a0\u201c as was alleged by plaintiff, but denied by defendants. \u201d This inadvertent omission was called to the .attention of the Reporter by the defendants\u2019 counsel after the publication of the last volume.\nIn Kahnweiler v. Anderson, ante, 142, line 25, read, \u2014 \u201cIf an excuse is available, \u201d &c.\nIn syllabus of Miller v. Churchill, ante, 372, read, \u2014 \u201c and upon the death of M without issue\u201d &c.\nIn State v. Bowman, ante, 511, line, 6, for \u201c deceased \u201d read, \u25a0accused.", "type": "majority", "author": "Smith, C. J." } ], "attorneys": [ "Attorney General, for the State.", "Messrs Scott Caldwell, J. A. Gilmer and Thos. Muffin for defendants." ], "corrections": "", "head_matter": "STATE v. DRURY LONG and others.\nIndictment \u2014 Removing Crops \u2014 Repeal of Statute.\n1, The repeal of a statute pending a prosecution for an offence created under it, arrests the proceedings and withdraws all authority to pronounce judgment even after conviction.\n3. The provisions of ch. 383, Acts 1876-7, (which act repealed the statute, Bat. Rev. ch. 64, \u00a7 115 under which the defendant was indicted) making the removal of crops under certain circumstances a misdemeanor, do not apply to antecedent acts.\n(State v. Mitt, Phil. 20 ; State v. Wise, 66 N. C. 130, and 67 N. C. 381, cited and approved.)\nINDICTMENT for Removing Crops tried at Spring Term, 1877, of Guilford Superior Court, before Gox, J.\nThe defendants, Drury Long, D. C. Long, Stephen Hus-sey, Linville Wood and John W. Wood, were charged with removing certain crops in violation of the statute. The facts touching the point decided by this. Court sufficiently appear in the opinion delivered by The Chief Justice. Verdict of Guilty. Judgment. Appeal by defendants.\nAttorney General, for the State.\nMessrs Scott Caldwell, J. A. Gilmer and Thos. Muffin for defendants." }, "file_name": "0571-01", "first_page_order": 587, "last_page_order": 589 }