Lenoir County, NC - State vs Lenoir County, 1825

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1317 – STATE vs Lenoir County

NC SUPREME COURT CASE – found at NC Archives, Raleigh, NC

Superior Court 3rd Mon after the 4th Mon of March being the 18 April 1825  

From time immemorial there has been a common goal for the purpose of keeping in safe 
custody offenders & prisoners within the county known by the name of the goal of Lenoir 
Co – said goal is now decaying and offenders can't be kept in the goal – justices in the 
county are Jonathan Rouse, Nathan B. Whitfield, James Dawson, John Gray, Levi 
Mewborn, John P. Dunn, David Griffin, Abner Pearce, Blount Johnson, Daniel 
Daugherty Senr, Melcher Rhem, James Cox, Evan Noble, Aretus Jones, James Davis, 
Robert Wooten, Robert W. Goodman, Needham Whitfield, Joel Hines, Hardy B. Croom 
and Moses Westbrook – it is their responsibility to repair the goal – Justices to be called 
to court to answer the state on an indictment for negligently and unlawfully permitting 
the jail to go to ruin and decay – justices said they were not obligated to keep up the jail

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