State v. Knight
3 N.C. 109
Procedural entryThis page is a short order in State v. Knight. Read the opinion of the Court — 1 N.C. 143 →
Opinion
This state cannot declare that an act done in Virginia by a citizen of Virginia, shall be criminal and punishable in this state : our penal laws can only extend to the limits of'' this state, except as to our own citizens: but granting that our-legislature could enact laws for the punishment of offences committed in Virginia, still this clause only extends by implication « to acts clone in Virginia ; and no penal lav/- can be construed bv implication nor otherwise than by the express letter.
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State v. Knight, 3 N.C. 109 (N.C. Ct. App. 1799).
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