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  "id": 8696697,
  "name": "STATE v. EPHRAIM WOODFIN",
  "name_abbreviation": "State v. Woodfin",
  "decision_date": "1882-10",
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  "first_page": "526",
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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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    "parties": [
      "STATE v. EPHRAIM WOODFIN."
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        "text": "Ashe, J.\nThe facts of the case are not set forth in the statement made up by His Honor, and we are left to infer what they were from the special instructions asked by the defendant, and the charge to the jury.\nFrom these we infer the defendant went hunting with a pistol in his pocket, or concealed about his person. If so he was clearly guilty of a violation of the statute.\nThere is no error in the refusal of the court to give the instructions asked ; and while we think he laid down the law somewhat too broadly in his charge to the jury, yet so far as it applied to the supposed facts of the case, it ivas not erroneous.\nNo error. Affirmed.",
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        "author": "Ashe, J."
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    "attorneys": [
      "Attorney General, for the State.",
      "Mr. Johnstone Jones, for defendant."
    ],
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    "head_matter": "STATE v. EPHRAIM WOODFIN.\nConcealed Weapon.\nIf one carry a pistol off his own premises, concealed about his person, for the purpose of hunting, he is guilty of a violation of the statute.\nIndictment for carrying a pistol concealed, in. violation of the act of 1879, ch. 127, tried at Spring Term, 1881, of BUNCOMBE Superior Court, before Bennett, J.\nOn the trial the defendant\u2019s .counsel requested the court to charge the jury that if they believed the defendant carried the pistol only for the purpose of hunting with it, and that he carried it openly and not concealed on his person for the purpose of hunting merely, he could not be convicted.\nHis Honor declined to give this special instruction and charged the jury, that it matters not for what the defendant carried the pistol, whether to hunt or for other purposes, yet if he carried it off his own.premises concealed about his person, he is guilty. If it was not concealed, of course he is not guilty.\nVerdict of guilty, judgment, appeal by defendant.\nAttorney General, for the State.\nMr. Johnstone Jones, for defendant."
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