State v. . Tilghman

The defendant was tried for murder. The bill was (515) found by the grand jury of LENOIR at Fall Term, 1850, and the case was removed by the State, upon the affidavit (517) of the solicitor, to CRAVEN, where it was tried at the present term of the court.

The solicitor called as a witness for the State one Joseph Wilson, who testified that he knew the prisoner at the bar, and also the deceased, Joseph J. Tilghman; they both lived formerly in Lenoir County, where Joseph J. Tilghman died on 15 August, 1850; that in the afternoon of that day, a few hours before night, the deceased parted with the…