Harrington v. M'Farland

Supreme Court of North Carolina

Harrington v. M'Farland

1 N.C. 408

DecidedJune 15, 1802

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Harrington v. M'Farland, 1 N.C. 408 (N.C. 1802).

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By the Court.

The fifth cause of demurrer, must prevail, connected with the additional circumstance that the charge is in the disjunctive, and does not call upon the defendant to answer any one of the offences specifically, which the [413]*413act of Assembly enumerates. In penal actions precision in the charge is indepensable, for the same reason that it is required in indictments; and none of the statutes of feofail, nor even the act of 1790 extends to them.

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By the Court.

The fifth cause of demurrer, must prevail, connected with the additional circumstance that the charge is in the disjunctive, and does not call upon the defendant to answer any one of the offences specifically, which the [413]*413act of Assembly enumerates. In penal actions precision in the charge is indepensable, for the same reason that it is required in indictments; and none of the statutes of feofail, nor even the act of 1790 extends to them.

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1 N.C. 408, Counsel Stack Legal Research, https://law.counselstack.com/opinion/harrington-v-mfarland-nc-1802.