Supreme Court of North Carolina, 1802

Harrington v. M'Farland

Harrington v. M'Farland
Supreme Court of North Carolina · Decided June 15, 1802
1 N.C. 408

Harrington v. M'Farland

Opinion of the Court

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 *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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