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  "id": 8694813,
  "name": "STATE v. STEPHEN HOLDER",
  "name_abbreviation": "State v. Holder",
  "decision_date": "1879-06",
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  "first_page": "527",
  "last_page": "528",
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    "name": "Supreme Court of North Carolina"
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    "name_long": "North Carolina",
    "name": "N.C."
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      "cite": "65 N C., 815",
      "category": "reporters:state",
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  "casebody": {
    "judges": [],
    "parties": [
      "STATE v. STEPHEN HOLDER."
    ],
    "opinions": [
      {
        "text": "Ashe, J.\nThe defendant was indicted for stealing a dog. It is no offence at common law. 4 Bl. Com., 236; Arch. Cr. Pl., 175; 1 Hale P. C., 512. The common law is the law of this state, except where altered by statute; and we have no statute making it larceny to steal a dog ; therefore, the indictment cannot be sustained.\nThere is no error. Let this be certified to the superior court of Davidson county.\nNo error. Affirmed.",
        "type": "majority",
        "author": "Ashe, J."
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    "attorneys": [
      "Attorney General, for the State.",
      "No counsel in this court for the defendant."
    ],
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    "head_matter": "STATE v. STEPHEN HOLDER.\nDogs \u2014 Larceny.\nDogs arc not the subject of larceny in this state.\nINDICTMENT for Larceny, tried at Spring Term, 1879, of Davidson Superior Court, before Schenck, J.\nThe bill of indictment charged the defendant Stephen Holder alias Stephen Phillips, with stealing \u201c one dog of the value of one dollar,\u201d the property of oneT. T. Spaugh. The defendant\u2019s counsel moved to quash the indictment on the ground that it did not charge an indictable offence. The motion was allowed, and Dobson, solicitor for the state, appealed. (See State v. House, 65 N C., 815; Latham, 13 Ire., 33.)\nAttorney General, for the State.\nNo counsel in this court for the defendant."
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