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STATE v. COULTER, 2 N.C. 3 (1791)
STATE v. COULTER., 2 N.C. 3 (Superior Court of North CarolinaHILLSBORO — 1791)
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STATE v. COULTER, 2 N.C. 3 (1791) STATE v. COULTER.Superior Court of North CarolinaHILLSBORO — April Term, 1791. A person entitled to a reward, offered by the General Assembly, on the conviction of an offender, is a competent witness against such offender. INDICTMENT for horse stealing.
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STATEv. COULTER,2 N.C. 3(1791)
Superior Court of North Carolina
HILLSBORO —
A person entitled to a reward, offered by the General Assembly, on the conviction of an offender, is a competent witness against such offender.
INDICTMENT for horse stealing. The General Assembly, at their last session, had offered a reward to any person who would apprehend him, to be paid upon conviction. Stokes apprehended him for stealing his horse; and now upon trial of the indictment for stealing this horse, Stokes was offered as a witness on the part of the State; and it was strongly objected that he ought not to be received, as it depended upon Coulter's conviction whether he should be entitled to the reward promised by the General Assembly, and that he could not be entitled to it unless Coulter should be convicted.
SPENCER and MACAY, JJ.,
Heldhe is a competent witness, and must be received; and he was received and gave evidence accordingly, and upon his evidence Coulter was convicted, and received judgment of death, and was executed.Vide2 H. H. P. C., 304, 280, 281.