Case Name: State vs. Parish
Court: North Carolina Superior Court
Jurisdiction: North Carolina
Decision Date: 1798-11
Citations: 2 Hayw. 73
Docket Number: 
Parties: State vs. Parish.
Judges: 
Reporter: North Carolina Reports
Volume: 3
Pages: 73–74

Head Matter:
State vs. Parish.
VJ E was indicted for murder and found guilty of manslaughter; and when he was brought into court to be burnt in the hand, Judge Haywood enquired of the bar, if they knew of any instances where a man had been indicted of murder and ioimd guilty of manslaughter, when the circumstances were such as in the opinion of the court amounted to murder, where the court had required surety of the prisoner for his good behaviour, and whether the security had ever been required for a longer time (ban. one year, saying upon the latter point, he thought there ivas a case reported in Barrow which decides it in the affirmative ; but ha had not known any instance of it in this country. Mr. Moore said, he recollected several instances, but not the names of the «•ases where it had been done, but that when be first heard it he thought it a strange doctrine.

Opinion:
Per curiam.
This man's conduct has shewn him to be very dangerous to society, and as there have been precedents in this country I shall direct him to give security for his good behavior for five j'ears, himself in £. 1000, with two sureties, each in the -sum of £. 500, and that he remain in prison till this security be given.
•It was ordered accordingly.