Case Name: The State v. Joseph Gregory
Court: Supreme Court of North Carolina
Jurisdiction: North Carolina
Decision Date: 1811-07
Citations: 2 Mur. 69
Docket Number: 
Parties: The State v. Joseph Gregory.
Judges: 
Reporter: North Carolina Reports
Volume: 6
Pages: 69–69

Head Matter:
The State v. Joseph Gregory.
From Wilkes.
®n the trial of an indictment for perjury, charged to have been committed in an oath taken before a company .court-martial, i\ is not necessary to produce the commission of the Captain : parol proof of his acting as such is sufficient.
The Defendant was indicted for perjury, charged to ,have been committed in an oath taken before a company court-martial, for the purpose of getting a fine remitted. On the trial a question arose, Whether the commission of the senior officer of the Court ought not to'be produced, to prove his grade as an officer and tiiat the court was legally constituted ? Tiie presiding Judge thought that it was not necessary to produce the commission, and received parol proof of the grade of the officers and of the constitution of tiie court. The question being sent to this Court, it was decided

Opinion:
By the Couiit
That it was not necessary to produce the commission of the Captain : that parol proof of his acting as such was sufficient.
The Solicitor for the State relied upon 4 Hawk. 432, Title Evidence — and 2 M'Nally 485 to 488, and the authorities there cited.