State v. . Johnson

The prisoner appeals from a verdict of murder in the first degree. The deceased, Carl Preddy, was overseer in the White Oak Cotton Mills near Greensboro. The prisoner had charge of the north end of the spinning room. It appears in testimony that the prisoner kept company with one of the girls working in his end of the spinning room and that for some reason the deceased, as the overseer, transferred her to the other end of the room, against the protest of the prisoner, where the witness R. C. Moreland was in charge, who testifies that he saw the prisoner on Sunday morning before the homicide,…